The science is clear: rich language exposure sets the foundation for success in school and life, including health. Early healthy brain development fuels Talk With Me Baby (TWMB), a groundbreaking ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have engineered a protein able to record the incoming chemical signals of brain cells (as opposed to just their ...

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

The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are ...

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 ...

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

The human brain has four distinct turning points where its structure changes, according to a study published in the journal ...

A single microscopic change in our DNA can permanently alter how the brain is built, locking in developmental problems that ...

Air pollution affects more than children's lungs. A paediatrician explains how toxic air can quietly interfere with brain development, attention and learning, and what families and schools can do to ...