Marketers and brand managers responsible for naming new products should be interested to learn that people associate certain sounds with nearness and others with distance, say researchers from the University of Toronto, whose ...
Apr 18, 2016
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A McGill University/UQAM research team has discovered that six-month-old infants appear to be much more interested in listening to other babies than they are in listening to adults. The researchers believe that an attraction ...
May 12, 2015
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UConn researcher Nairán Ramírez-Esparza, assistant professor of psychology, has found that how you talk to children matters.
Oct 10, 2014
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A team of researchers headed by the Erfurt-based psychologist Prof. Ralf Rummer and the Cologne-based phoneticist Prof. Martine Grice has carried out some ground-breaking experiments to uncover the links between language ...
Jun 26, 2014
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A simple shift in a vowel's sound can change the way people think and make decisions about objects – leading to a greater connection between a brand's name and product features a business wants to highlight, says new research ...
Jan 17, 2014
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(Medical Xpress)—New research has provided the first evidence to prove that active and engaged television viewing does help to accelerate language change.
Sep 10, 2013
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New research published today in Biology Letters reveals that men are significantly better than women at assessing someone's body size from the sound of their speech.
May 31, 2013
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Non-musicians who speak tonal languages may have a better ear for learning musical notes, according to Canadian researchers.
Apr 2, 2013
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Stephen Hawking and a 9-year-old girl with a speech disorder most likely use the same synthetic voice. It's called Perfect Paul and it's easy to understand, especially in acoustically chaotic environments ...
Feb 21, 2013
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(Medical Xpress) -- Scientists have unraveled how our brain cells encode the pronunciation of individual vowels in speech. The discovery could lead to new technology that verbalizes the unspoken words of people paralyzed ...
Aug 21, 2012
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