From the Duke University Medical Center press release via EurekAlert!: By studying how birds master songs used in courtship, scientists at Duke University have found that regions of the brain involved in planning and controlling…
From the PLoS ONE press release via ScienceDaily: Dyslexia may result from impairment of a different linguistic system than previously thought, according to research published Sep. 19 in the open access journal PLOS ONE. Speech…
From the Cornell University press release via EurekAlert!: For more than 50 years, language scientists have assumed that sentence structure is fundamentally hierarchical, made up of small parts in turn made of smaller parts, like…
From the Rice University press release: Contrary to the prevailing theories that music and language are cognitively separate or that music is a byproduct of language, theorists at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music and…
From the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft press release via EurekAlert!: New research examining auditory mechanisms of language learning in babies has revealed that infants as young as three months of age are able to automatically detect and learn…
From the Concordia University press release via EurekAlert!: Can a computer “read” an online blog and understand it? Several Concordia computer scientists are helping to get closer to that goal. Leila Kosseim, associate professor in…
From the British Psychological Society (BPS) press release via AlphaGalileo: Just because children use ‘text speak’ doesn’t mean they have a bad grasp of grammar. This is one of the findings of a team of…
From the University of Luxemburg press release via HealthCanal: Living in poverty is often accompanied by conditions that can negatively influence cognitive development. Is it possible that being bilingual might counteract these effects? Although previous…
From the Texas Advanced Computing Center press release by Monica Kortsha via EurekAlert!: Singing mice (scotinomys teguina) are not your average lab rats. Their fur is tawny brown instead of the common white albino strain;…
From the New York University press release via EurekAlert!: Hearing generic language to describe a category of people, such as “boys have short hair,” can lead children to endorse a range of other stereotypes about…