A man diagnosed with dementia in his 40s has revealed that a slight change in his working abilities was the telltale sign his brain health was in decline. Peter Alexander, now 56, never expected ...

“There was no sign of reversibility — the brains of people with obesity continued to lack the chemical responses that tell the body, ‘OK, you ate enough,’” said Dr. Caroline ...

Over 70 million deaf people around the world use one of more than 200 different sign languages as their preferred form of communication. Although they access similar structures in the brain as spoken ...

As a neuroscientist, the experience of learning to sign made me think about how the brain perceives this means of communicating. For instance, during my training, I found that mnemonics greatly ...

Over 70 million deaf people around the world use one of more than 200 different sign languages as their preferred form of communication. Although they access similar structures in the brain as spoken ...

How the brain processes sign language Date: February 19, 2021 Source: Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Summary: Over 70 million deaf people use sign languages as their ...

Previous studies on the processing of sign language in the human brain had already found some similarities and also differences between sign languages and spoken languages. Until now, however ...

Previous studies on the processing of sign language in the human brain had already found some similarities and also differences between sign languages and spoken languages. Until now, however, it has ...