Psychology & Psychiatry
What is love, actually? The world's languages describe emotions very differently
Is the meaning of love truly universal? It might depend on the language you speak, a new study finds.
Dec 23, 2019
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Is there a universal hierarchy of human senses?
Research at the University of York has shown that the accepted hierarchy of human senses—sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell—is not universally true across all cultures.
Nov 5, 2018
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Neuroscience
Researchers study the neurological links between smell sense and language
It is widely believed that people are bad at naming odors. This has led researchers to suggest smell representations are simply not accessible to the language centers of the brain. But is this really so? Psychologist Asifa ...
Apr 1, 2015
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Researcher uses eye tracking to study linguistics
For Clara Cohen, language is all about patterns. The postdoctoral psychology researcher has been interested in linguistic patterns since she was an undergraduate learning Russian, and now, thanks to advances in technology, ...
Apr 11, 2016
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Blue, green or 'nol'? New study reveals that even before infants can talk, language shapes their cognition
A new Northwestern University study shows that even in infants too young to speak, the object categories infants form and their predictions about objects' behavior, are sculpted by the names we use to describe them.
Jul 19, 2016
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Our brains 'time-stamp' sounds to process the words we hear
Our brains "time-stamp" the order of incoming sounds, allowing us to correctly process the words that we hear, shows a new study by a team of psychology and linguistics researchers. Its findings, which appear in the journal ...
Nov 7, 2022
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Similar patterns of brain activation and language selectivity found in speakers of 45 different languages
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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In recognizing speech sounds, the brain does not work the way a computer does
How does the brain decide whether or not something is correct? When it comes to the processing of spoken language – particularly whether or not certain sound combinations are allowed in a language – the common theory ...
Apr 30, 2014
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Gesturing related to storytelling style, not nationality, study
There are many stereotypes about gesturing across cultures—the idea that Italians are prone to hand-talking, for example. But new research by University of Alberta scientists suggests that the amount you gesture when telling ...
Mar 26, 2019
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Health
Patients with language barriers take almost twice as long to get to the hospital
Researchers analyzed English comprehension among 210 patients at four New York City hospitals who suffered heart attacks with a heart artery completely blocked. Doctors often refer to this type of heart attack as a STEMI, ...
May 12, 2011
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