http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Psychologists who analyzed video of a female chimpanzee, a female bonobo and a female human infant in a study to compare different types of gestures at comparable stages of communicative development found remarkable similarities among the three species. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-similar-gestures-apes-human-infants.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:19:12 EST news289754320 Researchers are digging deeper into whether infants' ability to learn new words is shaped by the particular language being acquired. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-nouns-verbs-agenda-early-language.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:09:36 EST news283450162 (Medical Xpress)—A new Northwestern University study shows the power of language in infants' ability to understand the intentions of others.  http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-infants-mimic-unusual-behavior-accompanied.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 09 Nov 2012 06:25:24 EST news271664714 (Medical Xpress) -- Whether it's a line from a movie, an advertising slogan or a politician's catchphrase, some statements take hold in people's minds better than others. By applying computer analysis to a database of movie scripts, Cornell researchers have found some clues to what makes a line memorable. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-youre-gonna-bigger-quote-movie.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 08 May 2012 06:40:01 EST news255676727 (Medical Xpress) -- Suppose a baby's first word is "mommy" or "daddy"--words an infant usually says around his or her first birthday. Of course, the little cherub puts a gleam in her parents' eyes; she's finally talking and is well on her way to becoming the next big opera star or a world famous author. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-infants-developmental-sequence-human-language.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 09 Mar 2012 09:28:48 EST news250507674 The ability to communicate using language is fundamental to the distinctive and remarkable success of the modern human. It is this capacity that separates us most decisively from our primate cousins, despite all that we have in common across species as intelligent social primates. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-brain_1.html Neuroscience Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:59:06 EST news241862336 (Medical Xpress) -- Do you ever wonder about the stuff that makes up words? Why is a word a word, what goes into forming it, what's its history or why is it long or short? Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology do. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-context-short-words-year-old-language.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 20 Jun 2011 09:24:46 EST news227780366