Building memory in the early years
Brain and behaviour influence each other, study suggests.
Memory is one of our most fundamental and important cognitive skills, but how it forms is not entirely clear.Now ...
brain development
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Does a 'recycled' brain region let us read?
New study adds weight to an evolutionary hypothesis.
The ability to read sets humans apart from other species, but we’re not completely sure how the brain developed the a...
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Understanding how brains fold and misfold
Study offers new genetic insights into a critical process.
Australian and Swiss researchers say they have new clues to how a baby’s brain folds as it develops in the womb, a pr...
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Using games to probe attention deficits
Australian researchers team up with game developers.
Hannah Kirk, a developmental neuroscientist at Australia’s Monash University, is paying close attention to attention....
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Brain development linked to inflammation
Maternal inflammation linked to brain connectivity.
Increased inflammation during pregnancy is associated with subtle changes in brain organisation in newborns and a dec...
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Neanderthal kids grew up differently
The brains of our extinct cousins grew more slowly than ours.
Skeleton of the Neanderthal boy recovered from the El Sidrón cave in Asturias, Spain. Credit: Paleoanthropology Group...
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Babies in the womb can already recognise faces
Facial recognition is inborn rather than learned?
The ability of babies to recognise faces develops in the womb rather than after birth, new research from the UK shows...
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Networks form as brains develop
Impulse control, organisation and decision-making all depend on networks within the brain.
A rendering of the structural connections in the brain of a 21-year-old male subject. Credit: Penn MedicineAs child...
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Arrested development
Epileptic encephalopathy is a rare sub-form of epilepsy.
Credit: Peter McPherson Lab, Montreal Neurological InstituteResearchers linked a debilitating neurological disease ...
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How baby birds learn to sing
Young finches respond only to song of an adult ‘tutor’.
As with human speech, a songbird's vocal learning depends on hearing examples in early life. Young birds listen to an...