For years, scientists suspected that fetuses could hear the muffled murmur of the outside world and that these early sounds ...

Can your brain attune itself to a foreign language before you're born? A UdeM-led team of neuropsychology researchers has ...

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

Photo by assumption111 on Deposit Photos During pregnancy, one of the best things to do for a child in the womb is to talk to ...

This new project adds a verbal AI system (a large language model) to probe deeper into perception. Its goal is to study how ...

Being bilingual may delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease by up to five years, new research suggests. This adds to a growing body of evidence that speaking multiple languages can contribute to brain ...

Understanding a simple-looking sentence such as “I read this article yesterday” actually requires some sophisticated conceptual computation: a subject (“I”) performed an action (“read”) on an object ( ...

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 ...

Using a ChatGPT-like AI model, scientists have created a new map of the mouse brain that captures previously uncharted areas ...

Babies start processing language before they are born, a new study suggests. A research team in Montreal has found that ...