Babies and young children make giant developmental leaps all of the time. Sometimes, it seems, even overnight they figure out how to recognize certain shapes or what the word "no" means no matter who says it. It turns out ...
Apr 8, 2014
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(Medical Xpress)—Two new studies appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveal what appear to be innate language preferences. In one study, Jacques Mehler of the Scuola Internazionale Superiore ...
There is a lot that 19-month-old children can't do: They can't tie their shoes or get their mittens on the correct hands. But they can use words they do know to learn new ones.
Mar 7, 2014
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Mark Dingemanse from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics investigates the ways in which these Lautbilder enable precise communication about sensory knowledge. "People can paint with language", says the linguist. ...
Feb 24, 2014
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Justice blindly trusts human memory. Every year throughout the world hundreds of thousands of court cases are heard based solely on the testimony of somebody who swears that they are reproducing exactly an event that they ...
Feb 5, 2014
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(HealthDay)—A reliable set of emotion words have been identified that can serve as a tool for experience-based design questionnaires in health care, according to a study published in the December issue of Healthcare.
Jan 17, 2014
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Babies can detect language differences - understanding that people who speak different languages use words differently.
Jan 7, 2014
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In the journal Neurology, researchers report a novel technique that enables a patient with "word blindness" to read again.
Jan 3, 2014
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In an article by Zoccolotti, De Luca, Lami et al, published in Child Neuropsychology, Rapid Automized Naming (RAN) tests were conducted on 43 average children and 25 with developmental dyslexia. The task involved naming ...
Dec 18, 2013
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Attention, parents: The messier your child gets while playing with food in the high chair, the more he or she is learning.
Dec 2, 2013
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