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Re-release: Bilingual Brain, Morning Sickness, Cat Purrs


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Today, you’ll learn about how the bilingual brain might be better at multitasking, good news for women who are at risk for morning sickness, and the strangely complex science behind cat purring. 


Bilingual Brain 

•“The bilingual brain may be better at ignoring irrelevant information.” EurekAlert!. 2023.  

•“Bilingual attentional control: Evidence from the Partial Repetition Cost paradigm.” by Grace deMeurisse & Edith Kaan. 2023.  

Morning Sickness 

•“Cause of Morning Sickness and a Potential Treatment Identified.” by Rhianna-lily Smith. 2023. 

•“GDF15: emerging biology and therapeutic applications for obesity and cardiometabolic disease.” by Dongdong Wang, et al. 2021.  

•“GDF15 linked to maternal risk of nausea and vomiting during pregnancy.” by M. Fejzo, et al. 2023. 

Cat Purrs 

•“How do cats purr? New finding challenges long-held assumptions.” by Phie Jacobs. 2023.  

•“Domestic cat larynges can produce purring frequencies without neural input.” by Christian T. Herbst, et al. 2023.  

•“How Low Can You Go? Physical Production Mechanism of Elephant Infrasonic Vocalizations.” by Christian T. Herbst, et al. 2012.  

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