Across time and place, right hand preference has been the norm, but what is the precise
prevalence of left-and right-handedness? Frequency of left-handedness has shaped and …

Understanding and responding to other people's actions is fundamental for social
interactions. Whereas many studies emphasize the importance of parietal and frontal …

Hemispheric asymmetry is a cardinal feature of human brain organization. Altered brain
asymmetry has also been linked to some cognitive and neuropsychiatric disorders. Here, the …

Human social networks are overwhelmingly homophilous: individuals tend to befriend
others who are similar to them in terms of a range of physical attributes (eg, age, gender). Do …

The notion of prediction is studied in cognitive neuroscience with increasing intensity. We
investigated the neural basis of 2 distinct aspects of word prediction, derived from …

Aside from the language-selective left-lateralized frontotemporal network, language
comprehension sometimes recruits a domain-general bilateral frontoparietal network …

To understand what you are reading now, your mind retrieves the meanings of words and
constructions from a linguistic knowledge store (lexico-semantic processing) and identifies …

Human neuroscience is enjoying burgeoning population data resources: large-scale cohorts
with thousands of participant profiles of gene expression, brain scanning and …

The contributions of the cerebral cortex to human balance control are clearly demonstrated
by the profound impact of cortical lesions on the ability to maintain standing balance. The …

The two hemispheres of the human brain differ functionally and structurally. Despite over a
century of research, the extent to which brain asymmetry is influenced by sex, handedness …