The more closely scientists listen to the brain during conversation, the more its activity patterns resemble the statistical ...

The claim that the brain, and particularly the frontal lobe, finishes developing at 25 is far less solid than social media ...

Hysell V Oviedo receives funding from NIH. Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic information into parallel channels – linguistic, emotional and musical – and acts as a biological ...

Researchers found that when the adult talked and played socially with a 5-month-old baby, the baby's brain activity particularly increased in regions responsible for attention -- and the level of this ...

Exposure to air pollution may have serious implications for a child's developing brain and cause damage to language ...

Language is more strongly controlled by the left half of the brain, while other functions are more strongly controlled by the ...

Playing recordings of a mother’s voice to premature babies may help their brains mature faster, according to the first randomised-controlled trial of this simple intervention. This approach could ...

In their classic 1998 textbook on cognitive neuroscience, Michael Gazzaniga, Richard Ivry, and George Mangun made a sobering observation: there was no clear mapping between how we process language and ...

New research finds that brain development is not linear. There are distinct phases with unique characteristics.