A team of psychologists has found strong associations between working memory — a fundamental building block of a functioning mind […]
Football players’ concussions linked to dyslexia gene
A gene associated with dyslexia, a learning disorder, may make some athletes less susceptible to concussions, reports a new study […]
Colored filter improves dyslexic children’s reading speed
Reading, one of the most difficult activities for children with dyslexia, can be improved by the use of green filters. […]
Analysis of billions of Twitter words reveals how American English develops
Linguists and geographers analysed 8.9 billion words contained within 980 million Tweets posted across the United States between 2013 and […]
Children take longer to learn two languages at once compared to just one — don’t fret
Worldwide immigration patterns are increasing the number of children who grow up exposed to two languages, a circumstance that provides […]
New study explains why genetic mutations cause disease in some people but not in others: Large genomic datasets and CRISPR offer new insights into disease risk
Researchers at the New York Genome Center (NYGC) and Columbia University have uncovered a molecular mechanism behind one of biology’s […]