What is the biological basis of our uniquely human capacity to speak, read and write? A genome-wide analysis of five reading- and language-based skills in many thousands of people, published in PNAS, identifies shared biology ...
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With U.S. monkeypox cases going from zero to more than 6,000 in less than three months, Northeastern University professors concerned about the pace of transmission are calling for better tests and more vaccine doses to stop ...
Aug 5, 2022
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Over several decades, neuroscientists have created a well-defined map of the brain's "language network," or the regions of the brain that are specialized for processing language. Found primarily in the left hemisphere, this ...
Jul 19, 2022
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A lot is unknown about how infants begin to connect names with objects, a critical skill for later language development. A new study by Indiana University researchers offers a fresh perspective on how infants reach this milestone ...
Jun 7, 2022
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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have explored the regions of the brain where concrete and abstract concepts materialize. A new study now explores if people who grow up in different cultures and speak different languages ...
May 27, 2022
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For two decades, language experts were certain that babies were able to learn language rules from as young as the age of seven months. However, recent research carried out by a consortium of four Dutch baby labs led by researchers ...
Mar 24, 2022
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Vaccine hesitancy could be reduced by providing health information in a foreign language, a new study finds.
Jan 10, 2022
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The brain uses a shared mechanism for combining words from a single language and for combining words from two different languages, a team of neuroscientists has discovered. Its findings indicate that language switching is ...
Nov 3, 2021
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Doctors of the World (DOTW), the Nuffield Foundation and the University of Birmingham have today published "Migration and Vulnerability During the Pandemic: Barriers to Wellbeing," which has revealed that refugees, asylum ...
Sep 14, 2021
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Scientists have long known that while listening to a sequence of sounds, people often perceive a rhythm, even when the sounds are identical and equally spaced. One regularity that was discovered over 100 years ago is the ...
Jul 9, 2021
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