The “eyes” say more than the “mouth” and can distinguish English sounds
A new method to estimate English discrimination ability from human pupillary responseCredit: COPYRIGHT (C) TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY. ALL RIGHTS ...
Tag: Language/Linguistics/Speech
Could your computer please be more polite? Thank you
Carnegie Mellon method automatically makes requests more politeCredit: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH--In a tense time when a pandemic rages, politicians ...
German federal funding for research on the differentiation of style and topic in text data
German Ministry of Education and Research is funding Sophie Burkhardt to establish a Computer Science junior research group investigating how ...
Native Amazonians, Americans and monkeys show similar thinking patterns
The neural computations of human and non-human primates shed new light on the evolution of languageCredit: Photo courtesy of Stephen ...
Variability in natural speech is challenging for the dyslexic brain
Credit: Photo: Veikko Somerpuro. A new study brings neural-level evidence that the continuous variation in natural speech makes the discrimination ...
Copyright Clearance Center partners with Editage to offer research promotion services
New service helps RightsLink publishers empower researchers and strengthen author programs without adding staffCredit: Cactus Communications (CACTUS) Copyright Clearance Center, ...
Ancient genomes link subsistence change and human migration in northern China
Genetic analysis of 55 ancient individuals finds that genetic changes in Yellow River, West Liao River and Amur River populations ...
High five! It’s possible to create proximity online
Credit: Linköping University Despite physical distance, it's possible to create proximity between family members located in different places. This is ...
TACC COVID-19 twitter dataset enables social science research about pandemic
Leading supercomputing center partners with scholars to collect, distribute, and analyze social media communicationsCredit: Dhiraj Murthy, UT Austin Of the ...
Behavioral intervention, not lovastatin, improves language skills in youth with fragile X
Researchers recommend focusing on nonmedical interventions while the search for helpful drugs continuesCredit: UC Davis Health A UC Davis Health ...
Health forums: Style of language influences credibility and trust
German psychologists investigate advice given on the internetCredit: Lars König/Regina Jucks More and more, people are using internet forums as ...
How the brain controls the voice
Rhythmic neural the signals determine sounds that bats makeCredit: Julio C. Hechavarria, Goethe University Frankfurt Bats are famous for their ...
At 8 months, babies already know their grammar
Credit: © Caterina Marino / CNRS / INCC Even before uttering their first words, babies master the grammar basics of ...
How computational linguistics helps to understand how language works
The paper by Gemma Boleda, ICREA research professor with the Department of Translation and Language Sciences has been published in ...