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Mothers and Strangers Voices: Impact on Newborns’ Brains

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Fetus­es and new­borns react pref­er­en­tial­ly to their moth­er’s voice. A recent study looked for the first time at what is going on in a new­born brain when hear­ing his mother’s voice and a stranger’s voice. Results showed that not only new­borns process their moth­er’s voice more active­ly than that of a stranger but they also process it differently.

Researchers looked at the brain activ­i­ty in response to voic­es (moth­er and female stranger) in 16 new­born babies (mean age: 21 hours), by apply­ing elec­trodes to their heads while they were sleep­ing. [Read more…] about Moth­ers and Strangers Voic­es: Impact on New­borns’ Brains

Brain teaser game to stimulate your temporal lobes

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Do you know where words are stored in your brain?

In your tem­po­ral lobe!

As you know, the brain has two sides (two hemi­spheres) con­nect­ed by the cor­pus cal­lo­sum. So you have one tem­po­ral lobe on each side of the brain.

If you are right-hand­ed, your lan­guage is stored most­ly in your left tem­po­ral lobe. If you are left-hand­ed, you are not so lat­er­al­ized and your lan­guage is stored a bit on both sides of your brain in the tem­po­ral lobes.

Words in the brain are not stored ran­dom­ly. They seemed to be quite orga­nized. Research has shown that words that are often heard togeth­er (such as salt and pep­per) or words that share some mean­ing (such as nurse and doc­tor) are con­nect­ed or asso­ci­at­ed in the brain. Once you hear one, the oth­er is activated.

Here is a men­tal exer­cise whose aim is to stim­u­late the con­nec­tions or asso­ci­a­tions between words in your tem­po­ral lobe.

In the left col­umn you have a [Read more…] about Brain teas­er game to stim­u­late your tem­po­ral lobes