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·November 3, 2015·5 min read

Right Side of Brain Can Compensate for Loss of Speech Following a Stroke

According to a new study, speech can be recovered on the right side of the brain following a stroke.

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·November 3, 2015·4 min read

Bach and Chopin Used Human Speech Cues to Convey Emotion in Music

Researchers report Chopin and Bach utilized speech cues to express emotion in their most famous musical compositions.

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·November 2, 2015·3 min read

What the Beep? Infants Link New Communicative Signals to Meaning

Researchers report infants have a social capacity to recognize new communicative signals in their environments.

Photo of a baby with a cochlear implant.

Featured Psychology

·October 22, 2015·4 min read

Babies’ Babbles Reflect Their Own Involvement in Language Development

A baby's repetitive babbling is influenced by the infant's ability to hear itself.

These brain scans show the weaker connections in those born preterm.

Featured Neurology

·October 19, 2015·3 min read

Risk for Weaker Brain Connections in Preterm Babies

A new study reports preterm babies could be at increased risk of psychological and neurological problems due to weakened connections in certain brain networks linked to emotion, attention and communication.

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·October 6, 2015·4 min read

Repetition Boosts Recall

A new study reports repeating phrases aloud helps boost verbal memory, especially if you do it while addressing another person.

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·October 2, 2015·2 min read

Robot May Help Researchers Unlock the Mysteries of Autism

Researchers are using robotic toys to help children with ASD develop language and social skills.

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·September 25, 2015·4 min read

Two Million Year Old Fossils Reveal Hearing Abilities of Early Humans

A 2 million year old fossil reveals the hearing patters of our early ancestors resembled that of chimpanzees, a new study reports.

Image shows descriptive writing, as if from a text based computer game.

Featured Neuroscience

·September 24, 2015·4 min read

Computer System Learns Language by Playing Games

Researchers have designed a computer system that learns how to play a text-based computer game with no prior assumptions about how language works.

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·September 23, 2015·5 min read

Robotic Toddler Helps Researchers Confirm Babies Time Their Smiles to Make Mom Smile in Return

Using a toddler like robot, researchers confirm that babies use sophisticated timing when they smile to make the person they are interacting with smile in return.