How the Brain Works

A Glossary --brain terms from the Society for Neuroscience

Language and the Brain --chapter from Introduction to Psycholinguistics (Longman. 1993).

MITECS entry on Neural Plasticity

MITECS entry on Lateralization

MITECS  entry on Neural Basis of Grammar

MITECS entry on  Neural Basis of Language

Intro to the Brain,short article from the Australian Academy of Science

Bibiolgraphy on Critical Age for Learning Second Language Phonology

The Cerebral Cortex,a dictionary-type short defintion from MITECS

The Cerebellum,a dictionary-type short defintion from the Society for Neuroscience.

Stem Cells

Stem Cells2

Brain Pasticity, interview from the Australian Boradcasting Corp.

Interview with Helen Neville on brain plasticity.

The Developing Brain --roundtable discussion

Liquid Genius, article from New Scientist: "There's more to the mind than neural networks. Messages also percolate through the soup-like fluid bathing the brain."

Brain Evolution and Neurolinguistic Preconditions --article

Right Hemisphere and Verbal Communication -- book review

"Is it true that creativity resides in the right hemisphere of
the brain?" --from the Scientific American "Ask the Experts" page

New Neurons --a study finds that humans can grow new brain neurons throughout life.

Adult brain can sprout new cells - "Against seemingly unbeatable odds, it turns out that new cells can sprout in the brain of an adult, even one in his 60s or 70s."

Another article on new brain cells in adults

What is the function of the various brainwaves?--from Scientific American 'Ask the Experts' page.

Do scientists understand why there are so many more right-handers than left-handers? --from Scientific American 'Ask the Experts' page.

Fact Memory Spared Despite Hippocampal Damage

Gene may determine right-handedness  --from ScienceNews.com

Language processing is strongly left lateralized in both sexes --abstract from the journal Brain.

"Splitting the Brain" --from Left Brain, Right Brain:  Perspectives from Cognitive
Neuroscience, 5th Ed.

"The Man with Two Brains" -- Alan Alda interview with Michael Gazzaniga (transcript of Scientific American TV program).

Consciousness and Will --things that can go wrong in our brains when there are problems with the two brain hemispheres.

What's right about the neural organization of sign language?  A perspective on recent neuroimaging results  --article

Late Bloomer, article  --A boy with one hemisphere upsets old ideas on speech acquisition

Blaming Nature for Language Delay --short article

Babies Don't Forget What They Hear --article: "Infants can remember the sounds of words almost a year before realizing their meanings."


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