Latest

communication

Autism Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles Psychology

·November 5, 2018·5 min read

Music Improves Social Communication in Children with ASD

A new study reports children on the autism spectrum who participate in musical activities have significantly improved social communication skills than those who are not exposed to music therapy.

Featured Neuroscience Neuroscience Videos Open Neuroscience Articles Psychology

·October 9, 2018·4 min read

Too Much Sleep is Bad For the Brain

While the effects of sleep deprivation are well known, researchers discover sleeping too much could have a detrimental effect on your brain. A new study reports sleeping more than eight hours per night can reduce cognitive ability and reasoning skills.

Auditory Neuroscience Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles Psychology Visual Neuroscience

·October 3, 2018·4 min read

Reading is a Team Lift As Different Brain Parts Work Together to Predict Proficiency

Researchers report the extent sensory specific parts of the brain connect functionally as a network during child development can help to predict their reading proficiency.

Auditory Neuroscience Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·October 1, 2018·4 min read

Familiar Voices are Easier to Understand, Even if We Don’t Recognize Them

Researchers report familiar voices are easier than those of a stranger to understand, even when the familiar voice is manipulated and the listener can not identify the voice.

Featured Psychology

·September 28, 2018·2 min read

The Reason You Can’t Keep a Secret

Researchers investigate why it is so hard for us to retain information given to us in confidence.

Auditory Neuroscience Featured Neuroscience

·September 26, 2018·5 min read

Unlocking the Secret of How the Brain Encodes Speech

Researchers report the brain controls speech production in a similar manner to how it controls the production of arm and hand movements. The findings could help to build better speech decoders for BMI, helping those who are unable to speak to find their voice.

Auditory Neuroscience Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·September 18, 2018·4 min read

Our Brain Predicts Words Before They Are Pronounced

Researchers report the brain is not only able to anticipate the conclusion of sentences, it can also anticipate an auditory stimulus and determine the phonemes or specific words a speaker is going to pronounce.

Autism Featured Psychology

·September 14, 2018·4 min read

Drumming Helps School Children with Autism

According to researchers, drumming for an hour a week helps improve learning at school for children on the autism spectrum. The study reports drumming not only improves dexterity, rhythm and timing for those with ASD, it also helps improve concentration and enhances communication with peers.

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·September 13, 2018·3 min read

The Art of Storytelling: Why We Relate to Characters

A new neuroimaging study sheds light on how we relate to characters in stories. Researchers report, no matter how a story is relayed, brain networks associated with theory of mind are activated when participants associate with the protagonist. The study concludes our brains relate best to characters, no matter how the narrative is expressed.

Auditory Neuroscience Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·August 29, 2018·4 min read

Teens Have a Hard Time Reading One Another’s Tones of Voice

A new study reports teenagers have a more difficult time discerning the emotional vocal tones of their peers. The results, researchers suggest, show teens have not reached a level of maturity in either ability to identify or express vocal emotions.

Featured Neuroscience

·August 1, 2018·4 min read

Improvement if Humanlike Conversations in Humanoid Robots

Researchers have developed a child like humanoid robot with the ability to converse like a human.

Featured Neuroscience

·July 23, 2018·4 min read

A Possible Origin of Human Speech

Researchers have identified a neural network in the brains of monkeys that may represent a common evolutionary origin for social communication and human speech.