Long before factories, mines, and cars filled the air with pollution, our distant ancestors were already living with a silent ...

“Every body language tell of deception and stress is due to cognitive overload,” Brown said. “During deception the neocortex ...

LLMs and the Brain, a symposium featuring researchers from Rice, Baylor College of Medicine, the University of Texas, the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Montreal and other ...

A new study suggests that exposure to lead may have limited brain and language development in Neanderthals, but a gene ...

Hearing a mother’s voice helps premature babies’ brains grow faster and develop stronger language connections.

Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave talk about the brain benefits of quitting cigarettes, language development in premature babies, and a mysterious imprint in a Chicago sidewalk.

Babies born too soon seem to have stronger connections in one of the major brain areas that supports language processing if they regularly heard their mother read them a story while in intensive care ...

Hearing the sound of their mother's voice promotes development of language pathways in a premature baby's brain, according to ...

Most research focuses on global languages like English, French or Chinese. Hawaiian voices have largely been left out.

Generally, when wearing these buds you can hear an almost real-time translation of what someone is saying in their native ...

A global study finds quitting smoking helps preserve memory and cognitive health, even for adults who quit in their 50s or ...