Psychology & Psychiatry
Why you should never use the term 'the mentally ill'
Even subtle differences in how you refer to people with mental illness can affect levels of tolerance, a new study has found.
Jan 26, 2016
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Seeing isn't required to gesture like a native speaker
People the world over gesture when they talk, and they tend to gesture in certain ways depending on the language they speak. Findings from a new study including blind and sighted participants suggest that these gestural variations ...
Mar 21, 2016
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Speakers of two dialects may share cognitive advantage with speakers of two languages
The ability of children to speak any two dialects - two closely related varieties of the same language—may confer the same cognitive advantages as those reported for multilingual children who speak two or more substantially ...
Apr 27, 2016
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Genetics
Massive genome study informs the biology of reading and language
What is the biological basis of our uniquely human capacity to speak, read and write? A genome-wide analysis of five reading- and language-based skills in many thousands of people, published in PNAS, identifies shared biology ...
Aug 26, 2022
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Neuroscience
For people who speak many languages, there's something special about their native tongue
A new study of people who speak many languages has found that there is something special about how the brain processes their native language.
Mar 10, 2024
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Communication skills benefit from the great outdoors
Conversations are more responsive in natural environments such as parks and gardens than indoors, finds new research by the University of Manchester and Cardiff University.
Oct 31, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Most adults know more than 42,000 words
How many words do we know? It turns out that even language experts and researchers have a tough time estimating this.
Aug 16, 2016
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Post-COVID psychosis occurs in people with no prior history. The risk is low but episodes are frightening
Far from the respiratory disease it seemed at first, COVID can impact almost all parts of the body, including the brain. For a small number of people, COVID infection may be accompanied by an episode of post-COVID psychosis, ...
Mar 23, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Why are there differing preferences for suffixes and prefixes across languages?
Linguistic researchers use an extensive body of research on English and other Western languages to make broad assumptions about trends in human language, including an apparent universal preference for suffixes (e.g., less, ...
Aug 28, 2020
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Neuroscience
Using mechanical tools improves our language skills
Our ability to understand the syntax of complex sentences is one of the most difficult language skills to acquire. In 2019, research had revealed a correlation between being particularly proficient in tool use and having ...
Nov 11, 2021
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