The secret to psychedelic drugs' links to greater empathy and insight may lie in their ability to coax the right hemisphere ...

Levin's study suggests psychedelics might make the brain's right hemisphere more dominant, impacting empathy and creativity.

Research reveals how the brain divides visual input between hemispheres, then seamlessly reconnects it to create a unified, ...

Scientists discover connection between left-handedness and neurological disorders. Study reveals lefties have 3.5 times ...

"The key takeaways of this study are that alterations in hand preference from the norm (i.e., right ... are left-handed or ambidextrous often don’t have such a dominant one-sided brain ...

In a 2012 study published in the journal Experimental Brain Research, researchers found that our left cheeks show a greater range of emotion than the right. Participants in the study were asked to ...

Optical illusions occur because of the way our brain processes visual information. The human vision system is complex but not perfect. When light enters the eyes, it is converted into signals by ...

Famous names like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg are not just tech legends—they also have something else in common: they’re left-handed. While being left-handed only applies to about 10% ...

People have a lot of misconceptions about what the brain's left and right hemispheres do, but one well-known aspect of this division may be even more true than people realize: The brain not only ...