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 ...
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A trio of researchers at Skidmore College has found that text with two spaces after the period in sentences allows people to process the information they are reading faster. In their paper published in the journal Attention, ...
Teachers-in-training have long been taught that fourth grade is when students stop learning to read and start reading to learn. But a new Dartmouth study in the journal Developmental Science tested the theory by analyzing ...
Jul 21, 2014
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(Medical Xpress)—Whether we process language we hear without regard to anything about the speaker is a longstanding scientific debate. But it wasn't until University of Kansas scientists set up an experiment showing that ...
Nov 19, 2013
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The days of having a dictionary on your bookshelf are numbered. But that's OK, because everyone already walks around with a dictionary—not the one on your phone, but the one in your head.
Nov 8, 2023
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How well we understand spoken language may depend more on our brains than our ears.
Oct 3, 2023
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Many objects and people can convey an emotional meaning. A pair of wool socks, for example, has an emotional value if it was the last thing the grandmother knitted before her death. The same applies to words. The name of ...
Jan 10, 2019
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How the human brain processes the words we hear and constructs complex concepts is still somewhat of a mystery to the neuroscience community. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) can alter our language processing, ...
Apr 8, 2016
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Familiar voices can improve spoken language processing among school-age children, according to a study by NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. However, the advantage of hearing a familiar ...
Oct 6, 2014
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Joanne Miller, Matthews Distinguished University Professor and chair of Northeastern's Department of Psychology, was recently recognized for her pioneering research on human language processing in the field of speech perception. ...
Jun 4, 2014
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