The human brain, as the seat of mental life—from the most complicated intellectual processes down to routine and unconscious bodily control—is necessarily enormously complex. The largest part ...

The human brain, as the seat of mental life—from the most complicated intellectual processes down to routine and unconscious bodily control—is necessarily enormously complex. The largest part ...

Individuals with a dominant left hemisphere, called left-brained people, are said to be analytical and logical, while those with a dominant right hemisphere, called right-brained people ...

The left hemisphere is responsible for processing language and numbers and is active during critical thinking and reasoning. The right side of the brain, however, is responsible for the senses ...

Experiments and imaging demonstrate that the brain is "cross-wired," with movement on the left side of the body primarily controlled by the right hemisphere and vice versa. Furthermore ...

When adults have strokes affecting a structure called the arcuate fasciculus in the left hemisphere of the brain, they usually lose their language abilities and regain them with difficulty, if at all.