As children grow into adolescence, corresponding regions on the left and right sides of their brain function less identically ...

Lateralization of the brain – the tendency for the left and right hemispheres to specialize in different functions – underlies the development of a left-to-right mental number line, according to a ...

A new study in *Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience* finds that adolescents with higher intelligence scores develop specialized brain hemisphere functions more quickly than peers. This shift from ...

Researchers discover that language and Theory of Mind originate in separate brain regions in children, challenging theories of overlapping cognitive development.

Scattered plots are the effect size as a function of age, with curves fitted by GAM (blue color) and the square root model (red color). Shaded areas around the curves represent standard errors. Dashed ...