The human brain, when deprived of certain input for a period of time, shows a great deal of plasticity, reorganizing itself to more effectively process the input that it does receive. Research has shown, for example, that people who are born blind are often more sensitive to differences in auditory More
The Third International Conference on Cognitive Hearing Science for Communication will be held June 14–17, 2015, in Linkoping, Sweden. For more information visit www.chscom2015.se. More
New research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, examines the nuanced relationship between language and different types of perception. Bilingual Infants Can Tell Unfamiliar Languages Apart Speaking more than one language can improve our ability to control our behavior and focus our attention, recent research More
RedOrbit: New research conducted with deaf people in Nicaragua shows that language may play an important role in learning the meanings of numbers. Field studies by University of Chicago psychologist Susan Goldin-Meadow and a team of researchers found deaf people in Nicaragua, who had not learned formal sign language, do More
Technically, I. King Jordan is a human male of average stature. You’d think he’d need to be a little bigger, not because his last name is Jordan, but because he walks around carrying the hopes and dreams for much of this world’s population of deaf people. Jordan, an APS Charter More
