From the Public Library of Science press release via ScienceDaily: Deep male voices and high-pitched female voices are perceived as more attractive because listeners gauge the speaker’s body size from the frequency of their voice,…
From the University of Waterloo press release via EurekAlert!: Researchers at the University of Waterloo have found that children hear more complex language from parents when they read a storybook with only pictures compared to…
From the University of Nottingham press release via AlphaGalileo: Playing simple games using words and pictures can help people to learn a new language with greater ease, researchers from The University of Nottingham have shown.…
From the IOS Press BV press release via AlphaGalileo: In a study designed to differentiate why some stroke patients recover from aphasia and others do not, investigators have found that a compensatory reorganization of language…
From the University of Pennsylvania press release via ScienceDaily: A new study from the University of Pennsylvania has shown that children as young as 2 understand basic grammar rules when they first learn to speak…
From the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care press release via EurekAlert!: Non-musicians who speak tonal languages may have a better ear for learning musical notes, according to Canadian researchers. Tonal languages, found mainly in Asia,…
From the Northwestern University press release via EurekAlert!: Researchers are digging deeper into whether infants’ ability to learn new words is shaped by the particular language being acquired. A new Northwestern University study cites a…
From the Kennedy Krieger Institute press release: New findings published in Pediatrics (Epub ahead of print) by the Kennedy Krieger Institute’s Center for Autism and Related Disorders reveal that 70 percent of children with autism…
From the UBC press release via EurekAlert!: Babies as young as seven months can distinguish between, and begin to learn, two languages with vastly different grammatical structures, according to new research from the University of…
From the Northwestern University press release via HealthCanal: Though learning to read proceeds smoothly for most children, as many as one in 10 is estimated to suffer from dyslexia, a constellation of impairments unrelated to…