From the University of Illinois media release: Scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign have uncovered evidence that could reshape how researchers think about both the brain and artificial intelligence. Their findings suggest that…
From the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics media release: Our brain works a bit like the autocomplete function on your phone — it is constantly trying to guess the next word when we are listening…
From the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology press release: Directing a meeting, dialing up an old acquaintance, dictating the perfect tuna salad sandwich across a drive-through window. For business and for pleasure, human…
From the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology press release: Children learn a huge number of words in the early preschool years. A two-year-old might be able to say just a handful of words, while…
From the Carnegie Mellon University press release: Small children learn language at a pace far faster than teenagers or adults. One explanation for this learning advantage comes not from differences between children and adults, but…
From the University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry press release: The University of Alberta-led research followed more than 400 infants from the CHILD Cohort Study (CHILD) at its Edmonton site. Boys with a…
From the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences press release: To understand the world, we arrange individual objects, people, and events into different categories or concepts. Concepts such as ‘the telephone’ consist…
From the University of Waterloo press release: Doublespeak, or the use of euphemisms to sway opinion, lets leaders avoid the reputational costs of lying while still bringing people around to their way of thinking, a…
From the University of Tokyo press release: Multilingual people have trained their brains to learn languages, making it easier to acquire more new languages after mastering a second or third. In addition to demystifying the…
From the University of Tokyo press release: A study with first-time learners of Japanese has measured how brain activity changes after just a few months of studying a new language. The results show that acquiring…