Listeners immerse themselves in audiobooks in very different ways
While listening to audiobooks with a captivating narrative, the inferior parietal lobe and visual cortex elicit individual meaning and flow of mental imagery.... Read More...
language processing
Brain region discovered that only processes spoken, not written words
A small, preliminary study helps researchers identify a region of the brain that specializes in the processing of auditory words.... Read More...
Newborn Babies Have Inbuilt Ability to Pick Out Words
Using fNIRS, researchers discovered babies are able to pick out words from speech at as young as three days old.... Read More...
How Brain Structure Influences Performance on Language Tasks
A new computational model sheds light on how personal brain structure can influence our cognitive performance on language based tasks.... Read More...
How Dogs Process Words
A new neuroimaging study reveals how dogs process words they have been taught to associate with objects. Findings suggest dogs have a rudimentary neural representation of meaning for words they have been taught.... Read More...
How the Brain Processes Music
Researchers reveal the right homologue of the Broca's area plays a major role in the processing of music.... Read More...
Brain Signal that Indicates Whether Speech Has Been Understood Discovered
Using EEG technology, researchers have discovered a specific brain signal that helps us to understand what we hear in conversation. ... Read More...
Reading a Neural Network’s “Mind”
MIT researchers investigate the inner workings of machine learning systems that process language.... Read More...
Infant Brain Responses Predict Reading Speed During Later Childhood
Brain responses from 6 month old infants with an inherited dyslexia risk differed from those without the risk factor and also predicted their reading ability later in childhood, a new study reveals.... Read More...
Hearing Different Accents at Home Impacts Language Processing in Infants
According to researchers, children raised with parents who speak the same language, but with different accents, recognize words dramatically differently by 12 months of age than those whose parents speak with similar accents. Researchers say the effect of multiple accents should be taken into account when studying monolingual language acquisition.... Read More...
Why Do We See Similarities Across Languages? The Brain May Be Responsible
Researchers report we may see similarities between different languages as a result of the brain's preference for efficient information processing.... Read More...
Brains of Children With Better Physical Fitness Posses Greater Gray Matter Volume
Researchers link physical fitness in children to increased gray matter volume in areas of the brain implicated in language processing and reading skills.... Read More...