Some of the most complex cognitive functions are possible because different sides of your brain control them. Chief among them is speech perception, the ability to interpret language. In people, the ...

Can you remember the last time that you confused left and right? Most healthy people have no issues telling left from right, but for some people (about 15 percent), left-right confusion is a somewhat ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic information into parallel ...