John Spencer receives funding from the US National Institutes of Health. Talking to your baby or toddler shapes the structure of their brain, my colleagues and I have discovered. For the study, which ...

The more closely scientists listen to the brain during conversation, the more its activity patterns resemble the statistical ...

HELPING YOUR CHILD UNDERSTAND LANGUAGE. A LOCAL HOSPITAL IS ONE OF THE ONLY HOSPITALS IN SOUTH FLORIDA OFFERING A PROGRAM TO NEW PARENTS. AFTER HAVING A BABY. ON THE IMPORTANCE OF BRAIN DEVELOPMENT ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Understanding exactly how the brain develops from birth has confounded scientists for decades, largely because tools to finely measure brain activity have been lacking.

Music classes for the very youngest children can set them up to one day play an instrument, but experts say the classes can also bring broader cognitive benefits: firing up areas of their developing ...

An AI model using deep transfer learning—the most advanced form of machine learning—has predicted spoken language outcomes ...

Exposure to air pollution may have serious implications for a child's developing brain and cause damage to language ...

Scientists have engineered a protein able to record the incoming chemical signals of brain cells (as opposed to just their ...

As teens spend less time with their friends in person, scientists are beginning to uncover how isolation may affect the ...

Hysell V Oviedo receives funding from NIH. Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic information into parallel channels – linguistic, emotional and musical – and acts as a biological ...