Neuroscience
Lots of kids are 'late talkers': Here's when to take action
As a speech pathologist, university lecturer and parent of young children, I often get asked a version of the following:
Jun 23, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Putting a voice and face together in early infancy determines later language development
Matching the sight and sound of speech—a face to a voice—in early infancy is an important foundation for later language development.
Jun 20, 2023
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Neuroscience
Scientists discover spiral-shaped signals that organize brain activity
University of Sydney and Fudan University scientists have discovered human brain signals traveling across the outer layer of neural tissue that naturally arrange themselves to resemble swirling spirals.
Jun 15, 2023
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Medical research
Use of automation in informed consent process for genomics research studies yields wider reach and better understanding
The informed consent process in biomedical research is biased towards people who can meet with clinical study staff during the working day. For those who have the availability to have a consent conversation, the time burden ...
Jun 12, 2023
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Health informatics
New 'AI doctor' predicts hospital readmission and other health outcomes
An artificial intelligence (AI) computer program can read physicians' notes to accurately estimate patients' risk of death, length of hospital stay, and other factors important to care. Designed by a team led by researchers ...
Jun 7, 2023
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Pediatrics
Male babies 'talk' more in the first year than female babies do, finds study
Young babies make many squeals, vowel-like sounds, growls and short, word-like sounds such as "ba" or "aga." Those precursors to speech, or protophones, are later replaced with early words and, eventually, whole phrases and ...
May 31, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Words matter: How researchers can avoid stigmatizing language
Word choice matters—a lot— when it comes to research. That's the main takeaway from a new article co-authored by Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation Assistant Professor Angel Algarin and published in Health ...
May 25, 2023
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Neuroscience
AI chatbots work by predicting the next word, so do our brains. Is there a connection?
When we hear or read a string of words, we are unconsciously making predictions about what's coming next. That's much like what AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Bard do. At root they are predicting what the next word should be ...
May 24, 2023
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Gastroenterology
ChatGPT does not pass American College of Gastroenterology tests
The natural language processing model Chat Generative Pretrained Transformer (ChatGPT) does not pass the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) Self-Assessment Tests, according to a study published online May 22 in the ...
May 23, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Study uses Twitter to analyze factors that affect the subjective well-being of university students
Previous research has shown that it is possible to predict Twitter users' personalities and mental health by analyzing their social network and word statistics information. A research team from Japan's University of Tsukuba ...
May 17, 2023
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