From the University of California – Los Angeles press release: It can be hard to resist lapsing into an exaggerated, singsong tone when you talk to a cute baby. And… Read more »
From the Concordia University press release: Bring on Twilight. Lee Child’s Jack Reacher? Yes, please. More of James Patterson’s Alex Cross while we’re at it. And let’s finish off with… Read more »
From the New York University press release: Our brains respond to language expressing facts differently than they do to words conveying possibility, a team of neuroscientists has found. Its work… Read more »
From the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston press release: The uniquely human ability to read is the cornerstone of modern civilization, yet very little is understood about… Read more »
From the University of Miami press release: We take for granted the fact that feelings such as love, happiness, or pain are described with different words and expressions across languages…. Read more »
From the Lancaster University press release: How people work out the meanings of new words has been revealed by Lancaster University researchers, who say this is similar to the way… Read more »
From the Society for Neuroscience press release: Learning a language later in life changes how the two halves of the brain contribute. As skills improve, language comprehension changes hemisphere specialization,… Read more »
From the Rice University press release: Rice University researchers have discovered a more efficient way for social media companies to keep misinformation from spreading online using probabilistic filters trained with… Read more »
From the Acoustical Society of America press release: Visual cues can change listeners’ perception of others’ accents, and people’s past exposure to varied speech can also impact their perception of… Read more »
From the Georgia State University press release: We all run from a burning building the same way–fast!–but how we describe it depends on the language we speak. In some languages,… Read more »
