Moving to a steady beat before listening can enhance how well people understand speech in noisy settings, according to new ...

Neurons—the nerve cells responsible for transmitting electrical and chemical signals throughout the body—are organized in tissue, tending to cluster together in groups according to how they function.

Infants as young as 15 months can use language context to infer the meaning of words referring to objects they’ve never seen.

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