Researchers at UC San Francisco have identified neurons in the human brain that respond to pitch changes in spoken language, which are essential to clearly conveying both meaning and emotion.
Aug 24, 2017
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Taboo words provoke certain responses in readers' heart rates and brains, diminishing their attention and memory, research has shown.
Aug 10, 2017
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Harvard scientists are beginning to provide answers to one of the thorniest questions in psychology: How do we think?
May 12, 2017
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Our brains process foreign-accented speech with better real-time accuracy if we can identify the accent we hear, according to a team of neurolinguists.
Apr 20, 2017
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According to Glasgow and HSE/Northumbria researchers, repetition of non-verbs as well as verbs can boost the effect of syntactic priming, i.e. the likelihood of people reproducing the structure of the utterance they have ...
Apr 17, 2017
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In 1932 T.S. Eliot famously argued, "Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."
Feb 17, 2017
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Judges in the United States tend to give defendants longer sentences the day after switching to daylight saving time compared with other days of the year, according to research published in Psychological Science, a journal ...
Dec 14, 2016
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Infants as young as five weeks old with the most severe form of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) - a leading genetic cause of infant mortality - can be treated safely with nusinersen. This investigational treatment slowed progression ...
Dec 6, 2016
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(Medical Xpress)—British newspaper The Sunday Times is reporting that a team of researchers in the U.K. believe they may have cured a man that was HIV positive. If the claims turn out to be true, it would mark the first ...
A new study shows that when you finish your spouse's sentences or answer a fill-in-the-blank question, you're engaging the brain's relay station for memories, an area that until now was largely neglected by scientists studying ...
Sep 20, 2016
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