Some parents may worry whether teaching their babies two languages concurrently will overburden their babies' minds, while some may wonder if babies get confused learning two very different languages from birth. These concerns are unfounded, according to the latest...
It's not rare that a baby experiences a stroke around the time it is born. Birth is hard on the brain, as is the change in blood circulation from the mother to the neonate. At least 1 in 4,000...
Bilingual people are great at saving brain power,a new study says. Image credit: Flickr/jurek_durczak
A research team established that years of bilingualism change how the brain carries out tasks that require concentrating.
New research findings show that bilingual people are great...
Illustration of yeast cells (stock image). Even brainless single-celled yeast have sensory biases that can be hacked by a carefully engineered illusion, a finding that could be used to develop new approaches to fighting diseases such as cancer, say...
Using a technique that can image neurons in real time following the application of compressive strain, researchers from Brown University have shown that irreversible damage occurs in cells about six hours after a trauma in lab samples. The finding...
This image shows Giant Nudibranch, Dendronotus iris.
Credit: Courtesy of Ralph and Dale Marie Gonzales
Scientists at Georgia State University have rewired the neural circuit of one species and given it the connections of another species to test a hypothesis about...
Most people could benefit from a few extra hours of sleep every night. But some people habitually sleep much less than the recommended amount, yet report feeling no ill effects. A new University of Utah study, published Sept. 15...
An illustration showing the portions of the brain involved in perception of a visual boundary, like a curb or a wall.Credit: Soojin Park/JHU
Humans rely on boundaries like walls and curbs for navigation, and Johns Hopkins University researchers have pinpointed...
Milgram experiment tests people's willingness to deliverer electric shocks to another person when encouraged by an experimenter.Image Credit:Flickr/Ape Lad
The title is direct, "Would you deliver an electric shock in 2015?" and the answer, according to the results of this...
This visual shows the relationship between gender-linked language topics and characteristics of warmth and assertiveness. Blue-shaded points are topics most linked with men. Orange-shaded points are topics most linked with women.Credit: Images courtesy of PLOS ONE
In a computational analysis...
These are skull casts from human evolution. Left to right: Australopithecus afarensis, Homo habilis, Homo ergaster, Homo erectus and Homo neanderthalensis.Credit: Roger Seymour. Casts photographed in the South Australian Museum.
A University of Adelaide-led project has overturned the theory that...
