An area of the brain called Heschl's gyrus - long known for handling early auditory processing - plays a far greater role in ...

How a person's brain grows and makes connections can determine intelligence ... slender projections of neurons that transmit electrical impulses—have a much higher density in the gyri (convex parts) ...

Traditionally, scientists have believed that prosody – a term describing pitch changes that convey meaning in speech – was primarily handled by the superior temporal gyrus, a brain region involved in ...

A novel study has shed new light on the brain structures critical to human verbal memory, offering valuable insights for ...