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·March 1, 2017·7 min read

Adults With Autism Overcome Childhood Language Challenges

Researchers report the brain can learn to compensate for language processing problems in adults with autism.

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·October 2, 2017·4 min read

Bilingual People May Find it Easier to Learn New Languages

Brain activity of bilingual people who learn a new language is similar to that of native speakers of that language within one day of training, a new study reports. For monolingual people, it takes much longer to exhibit P600 brain activity following language learning.

Featured Neuroscience

·April 8, 2016·4 min read

Does Painkiller Acetaminophen Hamper Our Ability to Notice Errors?

A new study looks at how popular pain killer, acetaminophen, may be inhibiting the brain response associated with error making.

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Featured Neuroscience

·May 13, 2013·3 min read

Grammar Errors? The Brain Detects Them Even When You Are Unaware

Researchers discover people detect and process grammatical errors with no conscious awareness of doing so.

Auditory Neuroscience Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·November 11, 2017·4 min read

How the Brain Encodes Sounds

Researchers report the auditory cortex may encode noises differently that was previously thought.

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Featured Neuroscience

·April 2, 2019·4 min read

How the brain finds meaning in metaphor

EEG study reveals the use of metaphors elicits bigger N400s in the brain than abstract verbs.

Featured Neuroscience

·February 20, 2017·4 min read

How the Brain Remembers Fearful Experiences

Before a rat avoids a place of which they hold fearful memories, the brain recalls memories of the physical location where the event occurred, researchers report.

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·January 18, 2019·4 min read

How the Brain Works During Simultaneous Interpretation

A new EEG study reveals how the brain utilizes more cognitive resources to hold memory and process previous information.

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·February 18, 2017·3 min read

Is the Human Brain Hardwired to Appreciate Poetry?

A new study reports the brain appears to have an unconscious appreciation of poetic construction.

Electrophysiology Featured Open Neuroscience Articles Psychology

·September 29, 2016·3 min read

Meditation Keeps Emotional Brain in Check

Meditation can help people to take their negative emotions, a new study reports.

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Featured Genetics

·November 29, 2013·5 min read

Study Connects Dots Between Genes and Human Behavior

A new study provides greater understanding of how genes influence brain structures, cognitive abilities and how neural circuits produce language.

Featured Open Neuroscience Articles Psychology

·July 26, 2017·4 min read

Talking to Yourself in the Third Person Can Help You Control Stressful Emotions

Thinking or talking about oneself in the third person can lead people to consider themselves in similar ways to how they think about others, a new study reports. Researchers say talking about yourself in the third person may allow you to distance yourself from stressful experiences and help to regulate emotion.