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Dr. Paula Tallal and Scientific Learning Corporation Collaborate in Creation of Cutting-Edge Research Center

12/7/2006

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OAKLAND, CA - 12/7/2006 - Dr. Paula Tallal, a co-founder of Scientific Learning Corporation (NASDAQ:SCIL - News) and an internationally recognized cognitive neuroscientist, will help spearhead the creation of a scientific center devoted to studying the importance of time in learning.

Thanks to a $3.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation, Dr. Tallal and her team from Rutgers University will collaborate with interdisciplinary groups of scientists from UC San Diego, Vanderbilt University, and other U.S. and international institutions to create the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center. The aim of the center, which will include Scientific Learning as one of two corporate partners, is to achieve a better understanding of how humans learn and the role that timing plays in learning, ideally leading to improved teaching techniques.

As the co-creator of Scientific Learning's Fast ForWord family of reading intervention products, Dr. Tallal is an expert on the role that timing plays in learning. A foundational aspect of the Fast ForWord products is the recognition that auditory processing speed is crucial to learning, reading and speech and can be improved via cognitive training.

"When you learn the sounds of your language, interact with colleagues and teachers, become proficient at sports or playing a musical instrument, or engage in countless other learning activities, timing plays a critical role in the functioning of your neurons, in the communication between and within sensory and motor systems, and in the interactions between different regions of your brain," explained Dr. Paula Tallal. "The success or failure of interpersonal communication and social interaction using gestures, facial expressions and verbal language also depend critically on exact timing."

The Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center will integrate its research and educational mission through the Education Outreach Center, which will be co-directed by Dr. Tallal and Terry Sejnowski from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Center-affiliated researchers will be aiming to enhance and disseminate existing research-based learning initiatives, such as the Fast ForWord products; a face and emotion recognition training system for autistic children called Let's Face It; and the robotic preschool teaching assistant, RUBI, as well as to develop new translational research initiatives.

The center's goals will be enhanced by the participation of Scientific Learning Corporation and one additional corporate partner, Jensen Learning Corporation. The Science Network, a non-profit, online TV network, is expected to grow to disseminate information from the center and may be used as a vehicle to educate the public and policy makers in order to inject science into the discussion of education reform.

About Dr. Paula A. Tallal

Paula Tallal, Ph.D., is a world-renowned authority and leading researcher in language and literacy development. She is a cognitive neuroscientist and board-certified clinical psychologist who has authored over 200 professional publications, holds several patents, and recently earned the Thomas Alva Edison Patent Prize for her work leading to the development of Fast ForWord.

Dr. Tallal is a Board of Governor's professor of neuroscience at Rutgers University in Newark, N.J., where she helped found (and currently co-directs) the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience. She is an active participant in many scientific advisory boards and has served on governmental committees for both developmental language disorders and learning disabilities. Dr. Tallal received her bachelor's degree from NYU and her Ph.D. from Cambridge, and did additional research training at The Johns Hopkins University. She has also held academic positions at the University of California at San Diego, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

In 1996, Dr. Tallal co-founded Scientific Learning Corporation and helped develop Fast ForWord, the company's flagship product. She still serves on the company's board of directors.

About Scientific Learning Corporation

Scientific Learning produces the patented Fast ForWord® family of products, a series of computer-delivered intervention products that build learning capacity by developing the neurocognitive skills required to read and learn effectively. These foundational skills are built through a series of brain-based exercises that create fast, effective, and enduring results. Based on more than 30 years of neuroscience and cognitive research, the Fast ForWord products use patented technology and applications of validated neuroscience principles to help children, adolescents, and adults build the language and reading skills widely recognized as the keys to all learning.

The exercises align with the scientifically based reading-research guidelines and the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act. The efficacy of the products has been confirmed by more than 200 independent research studies.

For more information about Scientific Learning and its products, visit our Web sites at www.scientificlearning.com and www.brainconnection.com, or call toll-free 888-452-7323.

This press release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to the safe harbor created by the federal securities laws. Such statements include, among others, statements relating to expected activities on the part of the research center, other academic researchers and other third parties. Such statements are subject to substantial risks and uncertainties. Actual events or results may differ materially as a result of many factors, including but not limited to: product development obstacles, lack of resources, and the actions of such third parties, many of which are beyond the Company's control, as well as other risks detailed in the Company's SEC reports.