University of Wisconsin–Madison

Tag: Cognition

Hearing loss and cognition both play a role in speech recognition for young adults with Down syndrome

For young adults with Down syndrome, understanding speech is not only related to hearing abilities, but it may also be impacted by cognition.

Caroline A Niziolek, PhD – Slide of the Week

How does cognitive inhibition influence speaking? The Stroop effect is a classic demonstration of the interference between reading and color naming.

André Sousa, PhD – Slide of the Week

The granular dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) is an evolutionary specialization of primates that is centrally involved in cognition. We assessed more than 600,000 single-nucleus transcriptomes from adult human, chimpanzee, macaque, and marmoset dlPFC.