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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Pediatrics
To learn English, bilingual children need robust vocabulary from parents and caregivers
The way a highly proficient speaker of English talks to a child is different from the way a less proficient speaker does. Even for two-year-olds, these differences matter in how they acquire and develop language skills. Early ...
Oct 9, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
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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Neuroscience
Hearing with your eyes—a Western style of speech perception
Which parts of a person's face do you look at when you listen them speak? Lip movements affect the perception of voice information from the ears when listening to someone speak, but native Japanese speakers are mostly unaffected ...
Nov 15, 2016
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Why being bilingual helps keep your brain fit
In a café in south London, two construction workers are engaged in cheerful banter, tossing words back and forth. Their cutlery dances during more emphatic gesticulations and they occasionally break off into loud guffaws. ...
Aug 8, 2016
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Psychology & Psychiatry
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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Health
Results for concussion sideline vision tests may vary when English is a second language
Popular sideline vision tests used to help detect immediate signs of concussion may present challenges in the interpretation of results for athletes who speak English as a second language (ESL).
Feb 24, 2016
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Cyberbullying increases as students age
As students' age they are verbally and physically bullied less but cyberbullied more, non-native English speakers are not bullied more often than native English speakers and bullying increases as students' transition from ...
Sep 10, 2014
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Neuroscience
Learning how to listen with neurofeedback
When listening to music or learning a new language, auditory perceptual learning occurs: a process in which your recognition of specific sounds improves, making you more efficient in processing and interpreting them. Neuroscientist ...
Mar 6, 2014
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Singing helps students tune into a foreign language, study shows
Singing in a foreign language can significantly improve learning how to speak it, according to a new study.
Jul 18, 2013
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