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People with a foreign accent are less credible to the brains of their listeners than native speakers, according to a new study from the University of Chicago published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

A team of scientists from the Institute of Neuroscience at the University of Oregon (USA) has identified the region of the brain that is responsible for processing silences in spoken language. As Michael Wehr and his colleagues explain in Neuron magazine, there are separate channels for processing the presence and absence of sound. The two channels converge in an area of the brain called the auditory cortex, located in the temporal lobe.

In addition to acting as a protective barrier for the body against the environment and contributing to the integral maintenance of its structures, the skin acts as a "second ear" capable of receiving sounds through air currents.

200 milliseconds elapse from when an idea appears in the brain until it is transformed into words, according to a Spanish research. With this mental speed, a human being is able to speak about three words per second.

Why can humans speak and chimpanzees cannot even though they share almost all of their DNA? American scientists have found the cause in small changes in a protein associated with the appearance of language.

Babies begin to pick up elements of what will be their first language in the womb long before they can begin to babble it. So much so that, according to a study, it is possible to distinguish between crying in Spanish, English, French, German ,?

The fish dies through the mouth ... and the offender is charged. Language experts are able to identify the real author of a terrorist call or ransom note.

Broca's area, a small area of the brain, is the center of language and can perform various linguistic processes in milliseconds, according to a study from the University of California School of Medicine and Harvard University.