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May 26, 2025 A new study says students appear to be using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) responsibly, and as a way to speed up tasks, not just boost their ...
May 21, 2025 There's good news for people with migraine who take common drugs before or during pregnancy -- a new study found no increase in neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and ADHD in their children. ...
May 20, 2025 Our ability to store information about familiar objects depends on the connection between visual and language processing regions in the brain, according to a new ...
May 16, 2025 Investigators are developing a new type of auditory brainstem implant that is designed to be soft, and flexible and address limitations of models currently in use. These implants may one day benefit people who can't receive a cochlear implant, such ...
May 14, 2025 Listen to the first notes of an old, beloved song. Can you name that tune? If you can, congratulations -- it's a triumph of your associative memory, in which one piece of information (the first few notes) triggers the memory of the entire pattern ...
May 14, 2025 A new study outlines how artificial intelligence-powered handwriting analysis may serve as an early detection tool for dyslexia and dysgraphia among young ...
May 13, 2025 Researchers identified two brain networks involved in word retrieval -- the cognitive process of accessing words we need to speak. A semantic network processes meaning in middle/inferior frontal gyri, while an articulatory network in inferior ...
May 9, 2025 Wild chimpanzees alter the meaning of single calls when embedding them into diverse call combinations, mirroring linguistic operations in human language. Human language, however, allows an infinite generation of meaning by combining phonemes into ...
May 5, 2025 The fact that left-handedness resp. mixed-handedness are strikingly common in patients with certain neurological disorders such as autism spectrum disorders is a frequently reported observation in medical practice. The reason why handedness is ...
Apr. 30, 2025 Researchers explored how manual and keyboard practice influenced children's abilities in their reading and writing learning process. 5-year-olds were taught an artificial alphabet using different ...
Apr. 25, 2025 In face-to-face conversations, speakers use hand movements to signal meaning. But do listeners actually use these gestures to predict what someone might say next? In a study using virtual avatars, scientists show that listeners used the avatar's ...
Apr. 23, 2025 A new study by developmental scientists offers the first evidence that infants as young as 15 months can identify an object they have learned about from listening to language -- even if the object ...
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Apr. 22, 2025 Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 ...
Apr. 21, 2025 Neuroscientists have developed a new treatment approach for a language disorder that combines traditional speech therapy with noninvasive electrical stimulation of the brain. Brain stimulation helped ...
Apr. 16, 2025 Complex protein interactions at synapses are essential for memory formation in our brains, but the mechanisms behind these processes remain poorly understood. Now, researchers have developed a ...
Apr. 14, 2025 A seminal study has uncovered a new genetic cause of neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs). The discovery offers both closure and hope to potentially thousands of families worldwide who have long been ...
Apr. 7, 2025 Long-term exposure to high levels of air pollution may harm the brain health of older adults in England, finds a new ...
Apr. 3, 2025 Fluency in a foreign language is often thought to be about speaking quickly and using advanced vocabulary. However, researchers reveal that speakers ...
Mar. 30, 2025 The way teachers manage classroom discussion with pupils plays a key role in the teaching of writing, a new study ...
Mar. 30, 2025 Researchers have conducted groundbreaking research on memristor-based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). This research presents an innovative approach for implementing energy-efficient adaptive ...
Mar. 27, 2025 A research team has uncovered a fundamental principle of how the brain prioritizes vision and hearing differently depending on whether we are still or in motion. The study provides new insights into ...
Mar. 22, 2025 New research finds the brain's language-processing network also responds to artificial languages such as Esperanto and languages made for TV, such as Klingon on 'Star Trek' and High Valyrian and ...
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Mar. 21, 2025 If you've ever noticed how memories from the same day seem connected while events from weeks apart feel separate, a new study reveals the reason: Our brains physically link memories that occur ...
Mar. 20, 2025 Fruit fly mutants that have severe sleep deficits perform better at olfactory learning and memory tasks, according to a new study. The paradox of enhanced memory despite sleep loss could be explained ...
Mar. 20, 2025 Though we learn so much during our first years of life, we can't, as adults, remember specific events from that time. Researchers have long believed we don't hold onto these experiences ...
Mar. 19, 2025 The parts of the brain that are needed to remember words, and how these are affected by a common form of epilepsy, have been identified by a team of neurologists and neurosurgeons at ...
Mar. 18, 2025 A recent study has linked longevity specifically to verbal fluency, the measure of one's vocabulary and ability to use ...
Mar. 18, 2025 Humans' unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence. As such, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ...
Mar. 3, 2025 First study to reveal the brain encodes pitch accents separately from the sounds that make up words. Heschl's gyrus region of the brain, an earlier stage of auditory processing, plays a much ...
Feb. 27, 2025 In the rapidly developing contest between human creativity and artificial intelligence algorithms, professional artists still have an edge in producing more creative AI-assisted artwork than the AI ...
Feb. 26, 2025 Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) approach that accelerates the identification of genes that contribute to neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism spectrum disorder, ...
Feb. 25, 2025 A new definition of dyslexia is needed to more accurately describe the learning disorder and give those struggling with dyslexia the specific support they require, says new ...
Feb. 19, 2025 Researchers find large language models process diverse types of data, like different languages, audio inputs, images, etc., similarly to how humans reason about complex problems. Like humans, LLMs ...
Feb. 18, 2025 How much does the evolution of human speech owe to one amino ...
Feb. 13, 2025 Imagine seeing a furry, four-legged animal that meows. Mentally, you know what it is, but the word 'cat' is stuck on the tip of your tongue. This phenomenon, known as Broca's aphasia ...
Feb. 6, 2025 A new AI-based tool can translate a person's thoughts into continuous text, without requiring the person to comprehend spoken words. This latest advance suggests it may be possible, with further ...
Feb. 4, 2025 Researchers develop machine learning tools that screen for co-morbid anxiety disorders and major depressive disorder using acoustic voice signals. The team spoke to participants with and without ...
Jan. 29, 2025 New psychology research indicates that multilingual children may have enhanced executive function and perspective taking ...
Jan. 28, 2025 Can a computer learn a language the way a child does? A recent study sheds new light on this question. The researchers advocate for a fundamental revision of how artificial intelligence acquires and ...
Jan. 21, 2025 Do speakers of different languages build sentence structure in the same way? In a neuroimaging study, scientists recorded the brain activity of participants listening to Dutch stories. In contrast to ...
Jan. 15, 2025 A research team identified the brain's food-specific memory system and its direct role in overeating and diet-induced obesity. They found a specific population of neurons in the mouse brain that ...
Jan. 15, 2025 A computational model explains how place cells in the hippocampus can be recruited to form any kind of episodic memory, even when there's no spatial ...
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- Insomniac Fruit Fly Mutants Show Enhanced Memory Despite Severe Sleep Loss
- Why Don't We Remember Being a Baby? New Study Provides Clues
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- Memory Systems in the Brain Drive Food Cravings That Could Influence Body Weight
- How One Brain Circuit Encodes Memories of Both Places and Events
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- Staying Sharp: Study Explores How Brain Changes May Affect Financial Skills
- Breaking Barriers: Study Uses AI to Interpret American Sign Language in Real-Time
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- Enabling AI to Explain Its Predictions in Plain Language
- Mothers' Language Choices Have Double the Impact in Bilingual Families
- Resolving Ambiguity: How the Brain Uses Context in Decision-Making and Learning
- Work Satisfaction, Pay Are Worse for Those Who Stutter, Study Finds
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- New Pathways to Long-Term Memory Formation
- To Remember Conversations, Keep Making New Brain Cells
- Unlocking the Science of Sleep: How Rest Enhances Language Learning
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- Children Exposed to Antiseizure Meds During Pregnancy Face Neurodevelopmental Risks, Study Finds
- How Stress Is Fundamentally Changing Our Memories
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- Brain Stars Hold Our Memories
- Researchers Have Uncovered the Mechanism in the Brain That Constantly Refreshes Memory
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- Scanning, Scrolling, and Swiping: New Research Uncovers Why Our Brains Are Effective at Quickly Processing Short Messages
- Adapting GenAI for the Next Generation of Learning
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- People With Dyslexia and Dyscalculia Show Less Bias, Study Shows
- Another Step Towards Decoding Smell
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- Variety Is the Spice of Learning, Memory Study Suggests
- Delayed Feedback Enhances Learning Performance in Individuals With Traumatic Brain Injury, Study Indicates
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- New Brain-Computer Interface Allows Man With ALS to 'speak' Again
- New Research Identifies Early Sensorimotor Markers for Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Patterns of Intelligence
- Scientists Discover Breakthrough Method to Activate Dormant Stem Cells in the Brain
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- Skin-to-Skin 'kangaroo Care' Found to Boost Neurodevelopment in Preemies
- Memory Loss in Aging and Dementia: Dendritic Spine Head Diameter Predicts Memory in Old Age
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- Fetal Brain Impacted When Mom Fights Severe Flu: New Mouse Study Explains How
- Words Like 'this' And 'that' Act as Attention Tools Across Languages
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- Depressive Symptoms May Hasten Memory Decline in Older People
- Detecting Early Linguistic Signs of Dementia by Studying the Natural Speech of Seniors
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- Infants Hear Significantly More Speech Than Music at Home
- How Does 'not' Affect What We Understand? Scientists Find Negation Mitigates Our Interpretation of Phrases