News tagged with native tongue

Researchers find thinking in a foreign language causes people to make more rational decisions

(Medical Xpress) -- While at first glance it might seem irrational, researchers from the University of Chicago have found that people who speak two languages tend to make more rational decisions when thinking in their non-native ...

Psychology & Psychiatry Apr 25, 2012 | 4.6 / 5 (15) | 2 |

Brain's involvement in processing depends on language's graphic symbols

Readers whose mother tongue is Arabic have more challenges reading in Arabic than native Hebrew or English speakers have reading their native languages, because the two halves of the brain divide the labor differently when ...

Psychology & Psychiatry Mar 21, 2012 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0