Researchers Implant “Memories” Into Birds – Teach Them Songs They’ve Never Heard
Discovery boosts understanding of how the human brain learns speech. A father holds up his newborn, their faces only inches apart, and slowly repeats the…
Discovery boosts understanding of how the human brain learns speech. A father holds up his newborn, their faces only inches apart, and slowly repeats the…
Newborn babies only a few hours old are able to differentiate between sounds from their native language and a foreign one. A new study indicates…
Many studies suggest that the behavioral effects of alcohol in humans can be modeled in fruit flies and other animals. Scientists that were trying to…
Brain connectivity can predict reading skills, thanks to brain scans and the examination of the growth of long-range connections in the brain. These allow researchers…
New research by neuroscientists and child psychiatrists shows that children whose mothers nurtured them early in life have brains with a larger hippocampus. This is…
Students tend to take far from optimal ways to assimilate information, especially when it comes to exams. Scientists Tim Novikoff, Jon Kleinbert, and Steve Strogatz…
Plug-and-play took on a whole new meaning in the movie, The Matrix, where people could learn kung-fu or how to pilot a helicopter by just…
Maybe those 19th-century doctors were on to something when they used electroshock therapy as a treatment for a myriad of medical problems. New findings that…