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Baby talk is real: Adults speak differently to babies in at least 10 different languages
Tokyo, Japan - There are many factors that contribute to infant language development, not least of which is baby talk—the modified speech mothers and other adults often use when speaking to infants.
Baby talk is more formally referred to a… More
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Supporting cognitive flexibility in autistic individuals, Exploring noninvasive brain stimulation as a tool to enhance cognitive adaptability
Supporting cognitive flexibility in autistic individuals Exploring noninvasive brain stimulation as a tool to enhance cognitive adaptability
BDNS apparatus. BDNS incorporates electroencephalography and transcranial magnetic s… More -
AI overconfidence mirrors human brain condition A similarity between language models and aphasia points to diagnoses for both
A similarity between language models and aphasia points to diagnoses for bothAgents, chatbots and other tools based on artificial intelligence (AI) are increasingly used in everyday life by many. So-called large language model (LLM)-… More
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Social environment as key to addressing the gender gap in teenage depression
Tokyo, Japan- Emotional disorders, such as anxiety and depression are about 3-fold more common in adult women than in adult men. Biological and neurogenetic considerations aside, these gender differences have commonly been ascribed t… More
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Sex Differences in the Brain Deciphered from Stress Responses --Female and Male Differences in the Effects of Early Stress on Brain Development and Brain Function--
*This article is reprinted from School of Science, The University of Tokyo.
Summary
A research group led by Professor Kazuo Emoto of the Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo and Senior Staff Akira Uematsu of the National Ins… More
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Branching channel: A building block for tree-structured representations in the brain
Tree structures have been widely used to model intelligent behavior, such as reasoning, problem-solving, and language processing. However, whether our brain uses tree-structured representations is still controversial. In particu… More
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Separating signal from noise in the brain
Separating signal from noise in the brainUnderstanding how primate neural mechanism distinguishes between spontaneous and stimulus-related activity
When the brain is observed through imaging, there is a lot of “noise,” which is spon… More -
Early Life Stress Shapes Attention Deficits in Male (But Not Female) Mice [Hensch Lab]
Please see the original article on the website of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, [here].… More
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Synaptic Strength Regulates Sleep Quantity and Quality
Sleep deprivation typically results in longer and deeper sleep, thereby maintaining overall sleep quantity and quality through homeostatic regulation. However, the specific mechanisms by which the brain monitors and controls sleep … More
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The ‘neural clocks’ in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients are running short
Within the human brain, a region known as the left angular gyrus and the way that it “tracks time” have emerged as a crucial player in the development of Alzheimer's disease.
Tokyo, Japan - Alzheimer’s disease is in many ways like a clock whos… More
