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Quality Over Quantity in Recovering Language After Stroke

Sep. 6, 2020 — New research has found that intensive therapy is not necessarily best when it comes to treating the loss of language and communication in early recovery after a ...

Brain Stimulation Reduces Dyslexia Deficits

Sep. 8, 2020 — Restoring normal patterns of rhythmic neural activity through non-invasive electrical stimulation of the brain alleviates sound-processing deficits and improves reading accuracy in adults with ...

Why Are There Differing Preferences for Suffixes and Prefixes Across Languages?

Aug. 28, 2020 — While speakers of English and other Western languages prefer using suffixes more than prefixes, a new study reveals that this preference is not as ...

Non-Invasive Nerve Stimulation Boosts Learning of Foreign Language Sounds

Aug. 6, 2020 — New research by neuroscientists revealed that a simple, earbud-like device that imperceptibly stimulates the brain could significantly improve the wearer's ability to learn the sounds of a new ...

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Novel Software Assesses Phonologial Awareness

Oct. 14, 2020 — Understanding sounds in language is a critical building block for child literacy, yet this skill is often overlooked. Researchers have now developed a new software tool to assess children's ...

Children Use Both Brain Hemispheres to Understand Language, Unlike Adults

Sep. 7, 2020 — Infants and young children have brains with a superpower, of sorts, say neuroscientists. Whereas adults process most discrete neural tasks in specific areas in one or the other of their brain's two ...

Bilingual Children May Lose Less Brain Matter as They Grow Up

Sep. 2, 2020 — Children and adolescents who speak more than one language may reach adulthood with better brain structure, according to a new ...

Adaptation in Single Neurons Provides Memory for Language Processing

Aug. 12, 2020 — To understand language, we have to remember the words that were uttered and combine them into an interpretation. How does the brain retain information long enough to accomplish this, despite the fact ...

Key Brain Region Was 'Recycled' as Humans Developed the Ability to Read

Aug. 4, 2020 — A new study offers evidence that the brain's inferotemporal cortex, which is specialized to perform object recognition, has been repurposed for a key component of reading called orthographic ...

Even If You Want To, You Can't Ignore How People Look or Sound

July 22, 2020 — Your perceptions of someone you just met are influenced in part by what they look like and how they sound. But can you ignore how someone looks or how they sound if you're told it is not relevant? ...

Pre-Brain Surgery Test Protects Language in Some Tumors

July 16, 2020 — A preoperative procedure might enable surgeons to protect the language centers during brain tumor removal without needing to keep patients awake during ...

Study Finds Hidden Emotions in the Sound of Words

July 14, 2020 — New research shows that some sound combinations, like those in the word 'virus,' elicit more emotionally intense responses than others. This may play a role in both children's language acquisition ...

Tests of Hearing Can Reveal HIV's Effects on the Brain

July 2, 2020 — New findings are shedding further light on how the brain's auditory system may provide a window into how the brain is affected by ...

Why Some Words May Be More Memorable Than Others

June 29, 2020 — Researchers have found that our brains may recall some common words, like 'pig,' 'tank,' and 'door,' much more often than others, including 'cat,' 'street,' and 'stair.' By combining memory tests, ...