New research shows how fast our brains are at ‘recording’ new words
Credit: Alexandra M. Razorenova, et al/ Frontiers of Neuroscience How much time does a brain need to learn a new ...
Tag: Language/Linguistics/Speech
Women hold prominent roles, publish more in ‘open science’ vs. ‘reproducibility’ model
Analyses reveal that two common practices to improve science - 'open science' and 'reproducibility / replicability' - operate independently and ...
Emotion vocabulary reflects state of well-being, study suggests
Credit: University of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, Sept. 10, 2020 - Vocabulary that one uses to describe their emotions is an indicator ...
Children use both brain hemispheres to understand language, unlike adults
Credit: Elissa Newport WASHINGTON -- Infants and young children have brains with a superpower, of sorts, say Georgetown University Medical ...
EU research funding in the millions for Saarbrücken-based computational linguist
Credit: Thorsten Mohr, Saarland Universität People infer things beyond what is literally said - and everyone makes his or her ...
How to render AI linguistically more intelligent
Dirk Hovy, Bocconi University, has won a 1.5 million euro ERC Starting Grant. His project introduces demographic factors into language ...
Aspirated consonants may promote the spread of COVID-19, RUDN University linguist says
Credit: RUDN According to a linguist from RUDN University, the number of COVID-19 cases in a country might be related ...
Strokes in babies are surprisingly common; here’s how the body rushes to the rescue
Credit: Courtesy Kuan lab New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine is shedding light on the development ...
Mother bats use baby talk to communicate with their pups
Credit: Michael Stifter When talking to babies, humans slow down their speech, raise their pitch and change the "color" of ...
Federal and state websites flunk COVID-19 reading-level review
Online pages used long sentences, complex wording when sharing health infoCredit: Richard Clark/Dartmouth College HANOVER, N.H. - August 18, 2020 ...
Machine learning reveals role of culture in shaping meanings of words
Credit: Thompson et al. What do we mean by the word beautiful? It depends not only on whom you ask, ...
NTU Singapore and Google Cloud develop rapid-response chatbot to address freshmen queries
Credit: NTU Singapore Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has rolled out a new virtual assistant powered by Google Cloud ...
Music on the brain
A neurological study of classical musicians trained in different stylesCredit: © 2020 Flickr/Wally Gobetz by CC-2.0 A new study looks ...
Pre-brain surgery test protects language in some tumors
Credit: Kazuya Motomura A technique that maps a patient's language centers before going into surgery works best when their brain ...