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·August 27, 2023·6 min read

Bilingual Brain Boost: How Knowing Two Languages Enhances Memory and Prediction

Could being bilingual make you better at predicting words and enhancing memory? A new study reveals that bilingual individuals have a unique advantage when it comes to memory retention and word prediction, due to the "competing words" effect.

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·August 22, 2023·3 min read

Why Our Brains Prefer Symbols to Words

Research reveals symbols are more memorable than words. This novel study dives into our brain's knack for recalling graphic symbols and logos over their word counterparts. Symbols, offering visual anchors for abstract ideas, outperform words in memory tests. This understanding could revolutionize visual communication and design.

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·July 10, 2023·6 min read

COVID-Era Infants Show Slight Delay in Communication Skills at Age Two

Researchers discovered that a minor percentage of children born at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic displayed developmental gaps in communication skills by age two. The findings supplement a previous study that analyzed 'pandemic babies' at 12 months of age.

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·July 8, 2023·4 min read

Brain’s Melody and Prose: How Music and Language Affect Different Regions

A recent study reveals how different brain areas are activated when processing music and language. Using direct brain recordings during an awake craniotomy, the researchers observed shared temporal lobe activity for both music and language.

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·July 5, 2023·4 min read

Rethinking Speech Recognition: An Unexpected Discovery in Brain’s Lexicon

Researchers identified the brain's verbal language catalog, or auditory lexicon, in an unexpected location: the front of the primary auditory cortex, not its back. This discovery defies a century-long assumption about brain organization and could significantly influence strategies for recovery and rehabilitation post-brain injury.

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·July 5, 2023·6 min read

Concept Creep: How Our Concepts of Anxiety and Depression Are Changing

A study exploring "concept creep" suggests that, with increased mental health awareness following the COVID-19 pandemic, the concepts of "anxiety" and "depression" are broadening. The study revealed that, contrary to expectations of less emotionally intense use, these terms have taken on more severe connotations over the past five decades.

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·May 13, 2023·3 min read

Stress Hormone in Pregnancy Bolsters Child’s Early Language Skills

Higher cortisol levels, a stress hormone, during the third trimester of pregnancy may boost speech and language skills in early childhood. A new study analyzed data from over 1,000 Danish women and children, finding that boys exposed to high prenatal cortisol levels could say more words, while girls understood more words at an earlier age.

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·April 26, 2023·5 min read

Baby Talk: Babies’ Language Acquisition Relies on Pitch and Rhythm

A new study reveals that prosody - rhythm, melodic stress, pitch, pauses - plays a fundamental role in babies' language acquisition and cognitive development, improving their ability to identify distant grammatical regularities. The study highlights the crucial impact of subtle pitch changes in processing statistical information in early childhood and sheds light on the role of prosody in language acquisition.

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·April 25, 2023·4 min read

Gray Matter Volume Linked to Language Deficits in Autism

Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) who have language impairment show lower gray matter volume and greater gyrification in the temporal and frontal lobes of the cerebral cortex, which are crucial for language function. The study's findings could help design specialized education programs for children with autism by understanding the structural characteristics that contribute to behavioral deficits.

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·April 20, 2023·8 min read

Beyond Words: Children Use Cognitive Skills in Language Learning

A new study challenges widely held assumptions about language acquisition in children, finding language learning and cognitive skills are interconnected.

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·April 19, 2023·4 min read

Why Some Children May Be Slower to Learn Words

Children with larger vocabularies look directly and quickly towards an object when learning new words, while those with smaller vocabularies look back and forth between objects and have a slower response time.

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·April 17, 2023·5 min read

Two Brain Networks Are Activated While Reading

Two distinct networks in the frontal and temporal lobes become activated and work in unison to integrate the meaning of words in order to obtain a higher-order and more complex meaning when reading.

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Bilingual Brain Boost: How Knowing Two Languages Enhances Memory and Prediction

Why Our Brains Prefer Symbols to Words

COVID-Era Infants Show Slight Delay in Communication Skills at Age Two

Brain’s Melody and Prose: How Music and Language Affect Different Regions

Rethinking Speech Recognition: An Unexpected Discovery in Brain’s Lexicon

Concept Creep: How Our Concepts of Anxiety and Depression Are Changing

Stress Hormone in Pregnancy Bolsters Child’s Early Language Skills

Baby Talk: Babies’ Language Acquisition Relies on Pitch and Rhythm

Gray Matter Volume Linked to Language Deficits in Autism

Beyond Words: Children Use Cognitive Skills in Language Learning

Why Some Children May Be Slower to Learn Words

Two Brain Networks Are Activated While Reading

Chickadees Sneak Around for Brains, Not Just Brawn

Retinal Photos and AI Predict Early Alzheimer’s Risk

AI Voice Scams Weaponize Vocal Timbre to Trick Our Trust

Senescent Cells Are Essential for Building the Brain’s Barriers

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