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·December 21, 2011·1 min read

Listen Up: Abnormality in Auditory Processing Underlies Dyslexia

People with dyslexia often struggle with the ability to accurately decode and identify what they read. Although disrupted processing of...

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·January 30, 2012·3 min read

Researchers Rewrite Textbook on Location of Brain’s Speech Processing Center

New location of critical area provides hints on origin of language. Scientists have long believed that human speech is processed...

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·January 31, 2012·3 min read

Gene Mutation in Autism Found to Cause Hyperconnectivity in Brain’s Hearing Center

Hyperconnectivity triggered by loss of PTEN gene can be blocked by treatment with rapamycin. New research from Cold Spring Harbor...

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·January 31, 2012·5 min read

Scientists Decode Brain Waves to Eavesdrop on What We Hear

Neuroscientists may one day be able to hear the imagined speech of a patient unable to speak due to stroke...

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·June 5, 2012·2 min read

Between the Ear and Brain, an Orderly Orchestra of Synapses

A new study finds that the ear delivers sound information to the brain in a surprisingly organized fashion. The brain...

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·July 10, 2012·4 min read

Study Shows the Deaf Brain Processes Touch Differently

Lacking sound input, the primary auditory cortex “feels” touch. The finding reveals how the early loss of a sense affects brain development. It adds to a growing list of discoveries that confirm the impact of experiences and outside influences in molding the developing brain.

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·August 7, 2012·3 min read

Making It Easier to Learn to Read: Dyslexia Caused by Signal Processing in the Brain

Major step in understanding the cause of dyslexia is taken. Scientists have discovered an important neural mechanism underlying dyslexia and shown that many difficulties associated with dyslexia can potentially be traced back to a malfunction of the medial geniculate body in the thalamus.

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·September 6, 2012·2 min read

Noisy Surroundings Take Toll on Short-term Memory

Scientists found that adverse listening situations are difficult for the brain, partly because they draw on the same, limited resources supporting our short-term memory. The new findings are particularly relevant to understanding the cognitive consequences of hearing damage, a condition that affects an increasing number of people.

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·September 18, 2012·3 min read

Theory: Music Underlies Language Acquisition

Contrary to the prevailing theories that music and language are cognitively separate or that music is a byproduct of language, theorists at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music and the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) advocate that music underlies the ability to acquire language.

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·September 19, 2012·5 min read

Autistic Adults Have Unreliable Neural Responses, Carnegie Mellon-Led Research Team Finds

Neuroscientists take the first step toward deciphering the connection between general brain function and emergent behavioral patterns in autism. Study shows that autistic adults have unreliable neural sensory responses to visual, auditory and somatosensory, or touch, stimuli.

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·October 19, 2012·2 min read

How the Brain Forms Categories

Neurobiologists investigated how the brain is able to group external stimuli into stable categories. They found the answer in the discrete dynamics of neuronal circuits.