Researchers in Japan used magnetic resonance imaging to study the brains of secondary school students during a task focused on musical observation. They found that students trained to play music from a young age exhibited ...
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The brain uses a shared mechanism for combining words from a single language and for combining words from two different languages, a team of neuroscientists has discovered. Its findings indicate that language switching is ...
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Affecting more than one in a hundred children, autism spectrum disorder is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders. It has a particular impact on social interaction, including difficulties in understanding other ...
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The type and quantity of an infant's language exposure relates to their brain function, according to new research published in JNeurosci.
Nov 30, 2020
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In addition to enabling us to communicate with others, languages are our instrument for conveying our thoughts, identity, knowledge, and how we see and understand the world. Having a command of more than one enriches us and ...
Nov 16, 2020
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Depending on what you read, speaking more than one language may or may not make you smarter. These mixed messages are understandably confusing, and they're due to the fact that nothing is quite as simple as it's typically ...
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Languages are used to convey thoughts, identity, knowledge, and the way people see and understand the world. Mastering more than one language provides a gateway to other cultures, and according to a team of researchers led ...
Sep 21, 2020
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Infants and young children have brains with a superpower, of sorts, say Georgetown University Medical Center neuroscientists. Whereas adults process most discrete neural tasks in specific areas in one or the other of their ...
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Children and adolescents who speak more than one language may reach adulthood with more gray matter, according to a new study.
Sep 2, 2020
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The next time you get the urge to lapse into English while conversing in your other language, try not to and your brain will thank you for it.
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