From the University of California – Riverside press release: Research led by a psychologist at the University of California, Riverside, shows that bilinguals regulate, or suppress, their native language when reading in a second language.…
From the CNRS press release: You can hear the perfect hello. And now you can see it too. Researchers from the CNRS, the ENS, and Aix-Marseille University[1] have established an experimental method that unveils the filter…
From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology press release: A landmark 1995 study found that children from higher-income families hear about 30 million more words during their first three years of life than children from lower-income…
From the Concordia University press release: After more than a decade of research, this much we know: it’s good for your brain to know another language. A new Concordia study goes further, however, focusing specifically…
From the McGill University press release: Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) often have a hard time switching gears from one task to another. But being bilingual may actually make it a bit easier for…
From the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences press release: One per cent of adults and five per cent of children are unable to achieve what most of us take for granted…
From the University of Florida press release: Parents and pediatricians know that reading to infants is a good thing, but new research shows reading books that clearly name and label people and objects is even…
From the University of Jyväskylä press release: A study conducted at the Department of Psychology at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland and Jyväskylä Centre for Interdisciplinary Brain Research (CIBR) has found that the brain responses…
From the University of Arizona press release: An estimated 7,099 languages are spoken throughout the world today. Almost a third of them are endangered — spoken by dwindling numbers — while just 23 languages represent…
From the University at Buffalo press release: Infants raised in homes where they hear a single language, but spoken with different accents, recognize words dramatically differently at about 12 months of age than their age-matched…