From the Cornell University press release: New research shows baby babbling changes the way parents speak to their infants, suggesting that infants are shaping their own learning environments. Researchers from Cornell University’s Behavioral Analysis of…
From the University of California – Berkeley press release: Too busy or lazy to read Melville’s Moby Dick or Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina? That’s OK. Whether you read the classics, or listen to them instead, the…
From the University of Texas at Dallas press release: A new language-skills study that included infants later diagnosed with autism suggests that all children can benefit from exposure to more speech from their caregivers. Dr.…
From the National Research University Higher School of Economics press release: When reading words on a screen, the human brain comprehends words placed on the right side of the screen faster. The total amount of…
From the University of York press release: Researchers have found that young children who are exposed to large amounts of adult speech tend to have better cognitive skills. The major new study, led by researchers…
From the Cornell University press release: In an online marketplace like Airbnb, host profiles can mean the difference between a booked room and a vacant one. Too peppy, too long, too many exclamation points? Language…
From the New York University press release: Gestures and visual animations can help reveal the cognitive origins of meaning, indicating that our minds can assign a linguistic structure to new informational content “on the fly”–even…
From the Radboud University Nijmegen press release: Does [a:] as in ‘baa’ sound more green or more red? And is [i:] as in ‘beet’ light or dark in colour? Even though we perceive speech and…
From the Lancaster University press release: Studying April Fools hoax news stories could offer clues to spotting ‘fake news’ articles, new research reveals. Academic experts in Natural Language Processing from Lancaster University who are interested…
From the University of Arizona press release: You can grasp a hand. You can also grasp a concept. One is literal. One is metaphorical. Our brains know the difference, but would we be able to…