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·September 25, 2015·4 min read

Two Million Year Old Fossils Reveal Hearing Abilities of Early Humans

A 2 million year old fossil reveals the hearing patters of our early ancestors resembled that of chimpanzees, a new study reports.

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·September 25, 2015·4 min read

Pinpointing The Precise Moment Our Brains Convert Speech Sounds to Meaning

A new study reports fine-grained speech processing details can be extracted from electrical brain signals measured through the scalp.

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·September 24, 2015·4 min read

Computer System Learns Language by Playing Games

Researchers have designed a computer system that learns how to play a text-based computer game with no prior assumptions about how language works.

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·September 18, 2015·4 min read

A Major Breakthrough in Understanding of Alzheimer’s Disease Reported

A new study sheds light onto a fundamental mechanism underlying the development of Alzheimer's disease. Researchers believe the findings could lead to new forms of therapy for those living with the disease.

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·September 18, 2015·3 min read

From Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer’s: Typical Patterns in Progression Towards Dementia Identified

Researchers claim to have identified typical patterns of the brain's progression towards Alzheimer's disease.

Image shows a schematic of hypothesized relationships between performance on Beat tapping and Memory/Sequencing tests.

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·September 16, 2015·2 min read

Rhythmic Memory and Beat Tapping May Be Separate Skills

According to a new study, the ability to tap along to a beat and the ability to remember rhythms appear to be unrelated skills.

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·September 16, 2015·3 min read

Choral Singing Could Improve Quality of Life for Stroke Survivors

According to a new study, singing in a choir can improve feelings of social isolation and low mood in stoke survivors.

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·September 15, 2015·5 min read

Unsupervised Computer Learns Spoken Language

A new computer system has learned to distinguish words' phonetic components independent of human training or interaction.

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·September 15, 2015·3 min read

The Benefits of Word Repetition for Infants

According to a new study, toddlers have larger vocabularies when their parents repeat words to them at 7 months old.

This is an auditory neuron in cricket brain.

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·September 12, 2015·5 min read

Neural Circuit in the Cricket Brain Detects the Rhythm of the Right Mating Call

Researchers have identifies a brain circuit that allows female crickets to automatically identify the chirps of males through rhythmic pulses in their mating calls.

This is a fast spiking interneuron in the cerebral cortex of the mouse.

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·September 10, 2015·3 min read

Dynamically Tweaking Neurons

Researchers have discovered a new molecular ‘switch’ that controls the properties of neurons in response to changes in the activity of their neural network.