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·November 19, 2015·3 min read

Better Cognitive Function After Stroke For Bilingual Patients

A new study reports bilingual patients are twice as likely to have normal cognitive function following a stroke than a person who speaks only one language.

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·November 19, 2015·4 min read

Shedding Light on the Secret Communication of Marine Life

A new study sheds light on a secret form of communication used by the mantis shrimp.

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·November 11, 2015·4 min read

Artificial Neural Network Learns to Use Human Language

Researchers have developed an artificial neural network that has been able to communicate with and learn human language.

Flow chart showing words spoken as part of the experiment.

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·November 10, 2015·5 min read

It’s All In The Tone

A new study reports on neural communication pathways for prosody.

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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.

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·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.

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·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.