From the PLoS ONE press release via MedicalXpress: Hearing a verb related to physical action automatically increases the force with which people grip objects, but has no effect on their physical reaction if the word…
From the Public Library of Science press release via EurekAlert!: Dogs learning to associate words with objects form these associations in different ways than humans do, according to research published November 21 in the open…
From the NIH press release via EurekAlert!: Researchers in the voice, speech, and language branch of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have used…
From the Northwestern University press release by Hilary Hurd Anyaso: A new Northwestern University study shows the power of language in infants’ ability to understand the intentions of others. As the babies watched intently, an…
From the University of Bristol press release via EurekAlert!: Professor Alexander Bentley and colleagues found that words commonly used by scientists when discussing climate science – such as ‘biodiversity’, ‘global’, and ‘isotopes’ – follow fashion…
From the University of Iowa press release: Many educators have long believed that when words differ on only one sound, early readers can learn the rules of phonics by focusing on what is different between…
From the Public Library of Science press release via ScienceDaily: Children with autism have difficulty identifying inappropriate social behavior, and even when successful, they are often unable to justify why the behavior seemed inappropriate. New…
From the University of Rochester press release via EurekAlert!: Cognitive scientists have good news for linguistic purists terrified about the corruption of their mother tongue. Using an artificial language in a carefully controlled laboratory experiment,…
From the University of British Columbia press release via ScienceDaily: Maternal depression and a common class of antidepressants can alter a crucial period of language development in babies, according to a new study by researchers…
From the Stanford University press release by Bjorn Carey via ScienceDaily: If a 7-year-old is breezing through the “Harry Potter” books, studies indicate that he or she will be a strong reader later in life.…