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Featured Genetics Open Neuroscience Articles

·September 16, 2014·4 min read

How Learning to Talk Is in the Genes

Genetics factors could contribute to the development of language during infancy, a new study reports.

The image shows a bird, a monkey and a girl.

Featured Open Neuroscience Articles Psychology

·June 11, 2014·6 min read

From Contemporary Syntax to Human Language’s Deep Origins

New research amplifies hypothesis that human language builds on birdsong and speech forms of other primates.

This is an fMRI scan of a person in a vegetative state.

Featured Neurology Open Neuroscience Articles

·October 31, 2013·3 min read

Patient in ‘Vegetative State’ Not Just Aware, but Paying Attention

A new study reveals a patient in a seemingly vegetative state showed signs of attentive awareness which had not been detected previously. Researchers hope the findings could open the door to creating specialized devices to allow those in a vegetative state to interact with the outside world.

The inferior frontal gyrus is highlighted in yellow in this brain image.

Featured Neuroscience

·June 18, 2013·2 min read

Study Discovers How the Brain Controls Accents and Impersonations

Researchers have identified the different brain regions and interactions involved in accents and impersonations.

The image shows two small birds sitting on a branch.

Featured Neuroscience

·February 27, 2013·4 min read

Songbirds’ Brains Coordinate Singing with Intricate Timing

Researchers discovered that as a bird sings, some neurons in its brain prepare to make the next sound while others are synchronized with the coordination of physical actions.

This is a pencil drawing of a cardinal singing.

Featured Psychology

·February 21, 2013·5 min read

How Human Language Could Have Evolved from Birdsong

Linguistics and biology researchers propose a new theory on the deep roots of human speech. A new study suggests human language is a grafting of two communication forms found elsewhere in the animal kingdom: first, the elaborate songs of birds, and second, the more utilitarian, information-bearing types of expression seen in a diversity of other animals.