News tagged with left cerebral hemisphere
Right-handed chimpanzees provide clues to the origin of human language
Most of the linguistic functions in humans are controlled by the left cerebral hemisphere. A study of captive chimpanzees at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center (Atlanta, Georgia), reported in the January 2010 issue ...
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Bat brains parse sounds for multitasking
Imagine listening to music while carrying on a conversation with friends. This type of multi-tasking is fairly easy to do, right? That's because our brains efficiently and effectively separate the auditory ...
Jan 03, 2012 |
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Peking man differing from modern humans in brain asymmetry
Paleoanthropologists studying the fossil endocasts of Australopithecus, Homo habilis, Homo erectus, Neanderthals, and Homo sapiens have reported that almost all brain endocasts display distinct cerebral asymmetry. ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 28, 2011 |
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Right-handers, but not left-handers, are biased to select their dominant hand
The vast majority of humans – over 90% – prefer to use their right hand for most skilled tasks. For decades, researchers have been trying to understand why this asymmetry exists. Why, with our two cerebral hemispheres ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 08, 2011 |
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Polly picks a preference: Parrots reveal link from the eye to the foot
(PhysOrg.com) -- The preferred use of one limb over another to physically explore the environment is a common trait among vertebrates. New research by Macquarie University Director of Advanced Biology, Dr ...
Feb 02, 2011 |
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Babies process language in a grown-up way
Babies, even those too young to talk, can understand many of the words that adults are saying – and their brains process them in a grown-up way.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 07, 2011 |
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Mom's voice plays special role in activating newborn's brain
A mother's voice will preferentially activate the parts of the brain responsible for language learning, say researchers from the University of Montreal and the Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Centre. ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 16, 2010 |
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Diagnosing autism with MRI is one step closer
University of Utah (U of U) medical researchers have made an important step in diagnosing autism through using MRI, an advance that eventually could help health care providers indentify the problem much earlier in children ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 13, 2010 |
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Complex brain landscape controls speech
Up to now, Broca's region in the brain has been thought to comprise two areas, since it was discovered in 1861, it has been regarded as one of the two regions in the cerebral cortex responsible for language. The conception ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 21, 2010 |
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Molecular imaging opens up a vast new world for neuroscience
Molecular imaging allows molecules in a living organism to be visualized, and provides a means of observing the distribution and behavior of molecules. One of the most exciting applications of this technology ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 06, 2010 |
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Probing Question: What is a lucid dream?
Have you ever had a dream that just didn’t feel like a dream -- where, like Alice in Wonderland, you had trouble telling fiction from reality? Perhaps you even felt like you had control over what was happening, ...
Aug 26, 2010 |
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