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Brain activity patterns emerge during musical analysis

Jan 20, 2022 by

Researchers at the University of Tokyo used MRIs to look at the brains of secondary students during musical observation and found that students who had trained to play music from a young age had stronger activity in the areas...

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Words and sounds processed separately but simultaneously in brain...

Sep 28, 2021 by

Neuroscientists have discovered a new pathway in our brains that processes the sounds of language. The new research indicates that auditory and speech processing occur in parallel. This contradicts the theory that our brains process acoustic information and then...

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How sounds may influence fetal development

Feb 23, 2021 by

A new study by Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland found that exposure to sound encouraged more diverse cortical connections in newborn mice than mice housed in silent enclosures. The mice who were not exposed to sound developed...

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LearningRx reviews study on why some musicians are better at sight-reading...

Mar 5, 2017 by

New research indicates it may be possible to categorize professional musicians based on their type of prioritizing modality information: via visual processing or auditory processing....

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Analysis of Resting State Functional Connectivity in a Cognitive Training Intervention Study...

Aug 27, 2016 by

Abstract: As part of a larger randomized controlled study by Hill, Zewelanji, and Faison (2015), 30 of the 225 participating high school students were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: ThinkRx, BrainSkills, or study hall (control). In addition...

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Direct stimulation to brain can boost language comprehension

Jun 3, 2016 by

New research indicates that tDCS can alter our language processing, allowing us to comprehend meaningful word combinations faster....

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