This past weekend, I got to visit one of the coolest places I’ve ever seen: the UCLA Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI). So just for today, I’m gonna take a break from news reporting, and tell you a little about what goes on inside an actual cutting-edge neuroscience lab. Sound good? OK, let’s go! I’m [...]
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Babies, Brains, and Bilingualism
August 29th, 2011 
The Connectome If you’d like to learn a new language, pay attention to the background noise, a new study suggests. See, each person’s brain responds a little differently to different types of sounds. Yours is most sensitive to slight variations in your native tongue (which you think of as accents), and less sensitive to variations in other languages. [...]
