Health
HealthCare.gov fixes error on website for Latinos
HealthCare.gov has fixed a conspicuous translation error on its Spanish-language website that had puzzled native speakers.
Oct 9, 2014
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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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Psychology & Psychiatry
Brain imaging proves second language learners can process language to nativelike levels
With enough practice, some learners of a second language can process their new language as well as native speakers, research at the University of Kansas shows.
Jul 22, 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
The structure of language influences learning
There are words that convey a meaning, like verbs, nouns or adjectives, and others, like articles or conjunctions that sustain them, providing a structure for the sentence. A few years ago some scientists of the International ...
Oct 3, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Understanding accents: Effective communication is about more than simply pronunciation
With immigration on the rise, the use of English as a second language is sweeping the world. People who have grown up speaking French, Italian, Mandarin or any other language are now expected to be able to communicate effectively ...
Oct 3, 2012
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Psychology & Psychiatry
In immersion foreign language learning, adults attain, retain native speaker brain pattern
A first-of-its kind series of brain studies shows how an adult learning a foreign language can come to use the same brain mechanisms as a native speaker. The research also demonstrates that the kind of exposure you have to ...
Mar 28, 2012
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Brain's involvement in processing depends on language's graphic symbols
Readers whose mother tongue is Arabic have more challenges reading in Arabic than native Hebrew or English speakers have reading their native languages, because the two halves of the brain divide the labor differently when ...
Mar 21, 2012
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Other
Error rate higher in breast imaging reports generated by automatic speech recognition
Breast imaging reports generated using an automatic speech recognition system are nearly six times more likely to contain major errors than those generated with conventional dictation transcription, a new study in Canada ...
Sep 22, 2011
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