From the American Technion Society press release: Researchers in the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management have developed a system for interpreting sarcastic statements in social media. The system, developed by graduate…
From the San Diego State University press release: When you look at a picture of a mug, the neurons that store your memory of what a mug is begin firing. But it’s not a pinpoint…
From the CNRS press release: The meaning of a word is enough to trigger a reaction in our pupil: when we read or hear a word with a meaning associated with luminosity (“sun,” “shine,” etc.),…
From the University of Chicago press release: The human brain works in rhythms and cycles. These patterns occur at predictable frequencies that depend on what a person is doing and on what part of the…
From the University of Illinois at Chicago press release: In one of the first crowdfunding studies focusing on social enterprises, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have found that how a pitch is…
From the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center press release: While reading to children has many benefits, simply speaking the words aloud may not be enough to improve cognitive development in preschoolers. A new international study,…
From the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics press release: Reading is such a new ability in human evolutionary history that the existence of a ‘reading area’ could not be specified in our genes. A kind of…
From the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care press release: A Baycrest Health Sciences researcher and clinician has developed the first group language intervention that helps individuals losing the ability to speak due to a rare form…
From the FECYT – Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology press release: The way bilingual people read is conditioned by the languages they speak. This is the main conclusion reached by researchers at the Basque Center…
From the American Academy of Pediatrics press release: As the number of smart phones, tablets, electronic games and other handheld screens in U.S. homes continues to grow, some children begin using these devices before beginning…