Calming Words Slow Down Cardiac Activity, Shedding Light on Sleep-Related Brain-Heart Dynamics

Medicine & Technology Feb 26, 2024

Researchers discovered that hearing relaxing words during sleep slows cardiac activity, revealing the influence of the external world on the sleeping body. Read the article for more details.

Extremely Rare Neurological Condition Enables 23-Year-Old Man to Taste Names, Claiming Some Are Delicious

Nov 14, 2022

A 23-year-old man's rare neurological condition makes him experience the sensation of certain tastes, smells, or feelings in certain names. Check out his story in this article and find out how he can taste some names.

Cerebral Cortex Found Responsible for Speech to Ensure People Say The Right Words

Feb 04, 2022

A new study recently focused on the half-dozen sub-regions of the surface layer of the brain, also called the cerebral cortex, as they are known to regulate how people are moving their mouth, lips, and tongue to form words and to play a role in processing what they hear they, themselves are saying.

Brain Scans Suggest Dogs Might Not Actually Understand What You Say To Them

Dec 09, 2020

Brain scans reveal that dogs might not understand all the words being spoken to them, which means that the number of words they recognize remains low.