Psychology & Psychiatry
Focus on outliers creates flawed snap judgments
You enter a room and quickly scan the crowd to gain a sense of who's there—how many men versus women. How reliable is your estimate?
May 11, 2021
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Cognition
Psychology & Psychiatry
Our attention is captured by eye-glance
Eyes play an important role in social communication by expressing the intentions of our interlocutors, and even more so in times of pandemic when half of the face is hidden. But is this eye contact automatic and rapid? Is ...
Apr 20, 2021
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Neuroscience
Infants' language skills more advanced than first words suggest
Babies can recognize combinations of words even before they have uttered their first word, a study suggests, challenging ideas of how children learn language. Assessments in 11-12 month-olds show that infants at the cusp ...
Mar 30, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Universal prosodic cues facilitate learning in both animals and humans
Prosody is a branch of linguistics that analyses and formally represents the elements of oral expression such as pitch, tones and intonation. A study published in Cognition on 5 February shows that there are universal prosodic ...
Mar 9, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Speaking and listening seem more difficult in a masked world, but people are adapting
Ten months into COVID-19 living, people are adapting to speaking from behind, and understanding others who are wearing, a cloth face mask, University of California, Davis, researchers suggest in a new study.
Feb 2, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Psychological research has a racism problem, scholar says
Race plays a critical role in shaping how people experience the world around them, so one would expect a rich body of literature published in mainstream psychological journals to examine its effects on people's thoughts, ...
Jun 25, 2020
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Neuroscience
Infants have a basic knowledge of the role and limitations of language
Marc Colomer and Núria Sebastián Gallés, members of the Speech Acquisition and Perception (SAP) research group of the Center for Brain and Cognition (CBC) at UPF have investigated whether 14 month-old infants understand ...
Jun 8, 2020
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Neuroscience
Children have very precise expectations about adults' communicative actions
Adults talk to babies differently from how we would speak to other adults. Compared to how adults speak, speech directed at babies tends to have a higher, more varied pitch, greater positive affectation, it is slower and ...
Apr 7, 2020
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Research quantifies how much speakers' first language affects learning a new language
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 eye and can affect how smart we think someone is, how ...
Nov 14, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Researchers advance the study of ethical decision-making
What would you do?
Jul 12, 2019
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