From the University of Rochester press release: Language research has documented that people tend to draw inferences about speakers based on how they talk. These often implicit inferences can occur in the blink of an…
From the University of California – San Francisco press release: Neuroscientists at UC San Francisco have discovered how the listening brain scans speech to break it down into syllables. The findings provide for the first…
From the Society for Consumer Psychology press release: Financial transactions between people who speak different native languages are more common than ever with more than one in five Americans speaking a language other than English…
From the Carnegie Mellon University press release: Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have leveraged machine learning to interpret human brain scans, allowing the team to uncover the regions of the brain behind how abstract concepts,…
From the Michigan State University press release: Writing instruction in early education should be about more than letter formation and penmanship, argue Michigan State University researchers who found preschool teachers don’t often encourage writing for…
From the University of British Columbia Okanagan campus press release: Reading in the presence of a pooch may be the page-turning motivation young children need, suggests a UBC researcher. Camille Rousseau, a doctoral student in…
From the University of Edinburgh press release: Children from disadvantaged backgrounds are three times more likely to develop difficulties with language than those from more affluent areas, research suggests. Researchers say the findings highlight the…
From the Society for Consumer Psychology press release: People today constantly encounter claims such as “Advil kills pain,” “coffee prevents depression,” or “Hilary promises amnesty” as brands, news outlets and social media sites vie for…
From the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics press release: How does learning to read change our brain? Does reading take up brain space dedicated to seeing objects such as faces, tools or houses? In a…
From the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology press release: Scientists have used MRI scanners to discover the parts of the brain which understand metaphors, in both healthy volunteers and people with schizophrenia. They found that people…