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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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…. Read more »
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…. Read more »
From the University of Edinburgh press release: Babies can recognise combinations of words even before they have uttered their first word, a study suggests, challenging ideas of how children learn… Read more »
