From the University of Liverpool press release: A new study published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, conducted by researchers from the University of Liverpool, Maastricht University and King’s College London, shows that bilingual speakers’ ability to speak…
From the Cell Press press release: When talking with their young infants, parents instinctively use “baby talk,” a unique form of speech including exaggerated pitch contours and short, repetitive phrases. Now, researchers reporting in Current Biology on…
From the Coventry University press release: Children with reading difficulties should be more thoroughly screened for hearing problems, a new report by Coventry University academics has said. The study, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, found…
From the Georgetown University Medical Center press release: It is often claimed that people who are bilingual are better than monolinguals at learning languages. Now, the first study to examine bilingual and monolingual brains as they…
From the University of Southern California press release: New brain research by USC scientists shows that reading stories is a universal experience that may result in people feeling greater empathy for each other, regardless of cultural…
From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology press release: The human eye can perceive millions of different colors, but the number of categories human languages use to group those colors is much smaller. Some languages use as…
From the University of Luxembourg press release: People can intuitively recognise small numbers up to four; however, when calculating they depend on the assistance of language. In this respect, the fascinating research question ensues: how…
From the Springer press release: When someone asks a question during a conversation, their conversation partner answers more quickly if the questioner also moves their hands or head to accompany their words. These are the…
From the New York University press release: Research on the neurobiology of bilingualism has suggested that switching languages is inherently effortful, requiring executive control to manage cognitive functions, but a new study shows this is only…
From the University of Chicago press release: If you could save the lives of five people by pushing another bystander in front of a train to his death, would you do it? And should it make…