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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A new analysis of U.S.-based pediatrics research published over the last decade found that just 9% of studies included non-English-speaking children or families, highlighting a lack of representation that could have serious ...
Oct 31, 2022
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Have you visited Yew Nork? Does your stummy ache? What dog of bag food will we get?
Oct 25, 2022
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Women make up just 37.7% of all speakers at hematology and medical oncology board review lectures, according to a study published today in Blood Advances. Its findings call attention to the many barriers people underrepresented ...
Jul 27, 2022
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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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People with hearing aids and other assistive listening devices often struggle at crowded events, because the various sources of sound make it difficult to make out any one of them clearly.
May 25, 2022
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Many have been surprised by the slower-than-expected uptake of the safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines by U.S. adults. While politics and misinformation contribute, particularly in some populations, language barriers to ...
Feb 10, 2022
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Vaccine hesitancy could be reduced by providing health information in a foreign language, a new study finds.
Jan 10, 2022
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When people are presented with a moral dilemma in their native language but the words are spoken with a foreign accent, it appears that they make more rational decisions. This was revealed in research that Susanne Brouwer ...
Dec 23, 2021
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Successful storytelling can synchronize brain activity between the speaker and listener, but not all stories are created equal. Sharing happy stories increases feelings of closeness and brain synchrony more than sad stories, ...
Nov 8, 2021
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