Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Containing Papers of a Biological Character The Royal Society is a self-governing Fellowship of many of the world's most distinguished scientists ...

THE function of the nervous system is to maintain dynamic equilibrium within the organism and between the organism and its environment. In the latter case the equilibrium is, in the higher animals, ...

Researchers have developed a new combination of technologies that allows them to identify the functional properties of individual synapses that link the two hemispheres and determine how they are ...

Most people assume humans only have two brain hemispheres—but we actually have four brain hemispheres. There are two "big" hemispheres in the cerebrum that house the cerebral cortex and are commonly ...

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 ...

WE have already had tospeak in terms of high commendation of Dr. Flint's comprehensive treatise on human physiology, as being written in a clear, methodical, and judicial style, the statements made ...

The left and right hemispheres of Albert Einstein’s brain were unusually well connected to each other and may have contributed to his brilliance. The left and right hemispheres of Albert Einstein's ...

The complex human brain controls who we are: how we think, feel, and act. It gives meaning to our world and our place in it. The brain also controls all major body functions. The brain is housed in ...

Gillian Forrester does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

A study by the HSE Centre for Language and Brain has confirmed the role of the corpus callosum in language lateralization, ie the distribution of language processing functions between the brain's ...