Amazing Brains

You're walking home late at night down a dark deserted street, when you think you hear footsteps behind you. Or you're a business man on your way to a critical meeting with a big new client. You ...

Children's brains are uniquely adapted to learning language, apparently containing a distinct language organ, so they learn perfectly whatever language they are exposed to, even without formal ...

On your first day at a new job you walk into a room full of new people. The next day who are you most likely to remember? Probably your new boss, the man who made you laugh, the woman who asked you ...

"If you speak three languages you're trilingual. If you speak one you're English". It sounds clichéd, but unfortunately the statistics bear this out. About 10% of UK workers speak a second ...

Newborn infants can move their arms, legs, hands and feet around, mainly in a reflexive manner with little conscious control over starting or stopping. Children need to acquire a vast array of motor ...

Cognitive neuroscience shows how different areas in both sides of the brain contribute to most cognitive functions, when the functions are broken down to components. Left and right brain usually ...

In 1981 the Nobel laureate Roger Sperry pioneered the study of "split-brain" patients and discovered some astounding things about how our brains work. "Split-brain" patients are people who have ...

Most children start babbling and understanding words around age one. Between age two and three their vocabulary and grammar improve in leaps and bounds with periods of explosion when very rapid ...