The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an ...

A new brain study suggests speech learning relies more on listening and self-correction than muscle memory, changing how ...

How does the brain prepare to hear before birth? Johns Hopkins researchers discovered an internal neural "shortcut" that ...

Short-term memories are thought to be formed deep within the brain in structures such as the hippocampus, but little is known about how and where memory-related information is kept in the brain or the ...

New Baycrest research reveals that the brain remembers what we see and what we hear in different ways. Visual memories tend to retain fine details, while auditory memories are more likely to preserve ...

Babies learning to talk rely on their ears far more than on the movements of their own mouths, according to a body of ...

Researchers have found that the brain’s ability to hear and evaluate its own speech may matter more for learning new vocal ...

We tend to think of brain health as something we protect with crossword puzzles, Wordle, or the occasional sudoku. Those activities certainly keep your mind engaged, but they don't ask your brain to ...

Summary: A new study discovered that randomly played sounds during sleep can actively impair memory consolidation. By ...

When Amy Richter was a little girl, her father often traveled for work. He often came home bearing gifts of music and record albums. They bonded while poring over all that vinyl, she recalls, ...

Every time you master a new recipe, remember a phone number, or finally figure out how to fold a fitted sheet, your brain is learning. But new research shows that the brain learns in a more complex ...

Did you know that a baby's brain grows faster in the first three years of life than at any other time? By the age of three, ...