The ability to produce and understand language makes humans unique. Not just humans but also monkeys and dogs can learn words. What is the key difference to our human language? And how does this medium in which we speak, ...
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What makes some words easier to learn than others? Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and Radboud University taught Japanese words to Dutch students and found that ideophones—words that sound ...
Feb 11, 2016
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Consider this collection of headlines from national national media outlets over the past few weeks: "Allowing the mentally ill guns is insane," or "Ranks of ISIS include mentally ill," or "Jail last refuge for mentally ill" ...
Feb 5, 2016
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To give good directions, it is not enough to say the right things: saying them in the right order is also important, shows a study in Frontiers in Psychology. Sentences that start with a prominent landmark and end with the ...
Dec 9, 2015
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A team of neuroscientists has found new support for MIT linguist Noam Chomsky's decades-old theory that we possess an "internal grammar" that allows us to comprehend even nonsensical phrases.
Dec 7, 2015
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Researchers of Tomsk State University and New Bulgarian University claim that human thoughts are able to materialize an object. They've published results of their experiments in the article "Remember down, look down, read ...
Nov 17, 2015
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A baby's first words are often Mama or Dada, but new research by a Florida State University psychology professor delves into how children build on these early words to create a colorful vocabulary.
Oct 13, 2015
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Words are symbols that help humans communicate. The link between words and what they refer to is, with very few exceptions, arbitrary. Many of the words that we currently use ("table," "dog," "mug," etc) could easily have ...
Sep 23, 2015
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A new study co-authored by a UT Dallas professor in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences details that the quality of interactions between young children and their parents is just as important—if not more important—as ...
Sep 9, 2015
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(Medical Xpress)—The Triangle Model is a widely accepted theoretical framework that comprises the basis for a number of cognitive models of word reading. It is built around three primary cognitive units that encode different ...
