Neuroscientists are converging on a detailed picture of how the human brain carves continuous speech into words, drawing on new work from institutions including UC San Francisco and research teams ...

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Teachers are increasingly encouraged to become amateur neuroscientists. For the last decade, educational materials have promoted neuroplasticity, the brain’s capacity for adaptation, as the key to ...