Both adults and young children rely on orthographic information, or letter image and word length, over phonological information when reading.
Our native language may affect the way in which our brains are wired and underlie the way we think, a new study reports. Using neuroimaging to analyze neural connectivity in native German and native Arabic speakers, researchers found stronger connectivity between the right and left hemispheres in Arabic speakers, and stronger connectivity in the left hemisphere language area in German speakers.
Researchers say profanity is a more powerful and entirely different form of communication, evoking differences in emotion, compared to regular language use.
Young children are more likely to know an emotional label when they also know related valenced words. Parents who surround emotional labels with related words provide support for their child's learning and language development skills.
Toddlers on the autism spectrum who pay less attention to "motherese", or baby-talk, exhibited weaker social and language skills in later tests.
Study reveals how we connect sounds, letters, and words to their meaning, and the mechanisms behind why those with "ticker-tape" synesthesia tend to see subtitles when listening to the spoken word.
When learning new vocabulary, repeating words can have a negative effect on learning. Silently listening to the words or pausing between hearing and producing the new word helps to better consolidate language learning.
Study confirms the role the corpus callosum plays in language lateralization.
Those in negative moods may be better able to spot inconsistencies in the things they read. The findings shed light on how mood affects language processing.
Speech pattern analysis can help accurately diagnose depression and psychosis, measure the severity of symptoms, and predict the onset of mental health conditions.
Using advances in machine learning, researchers have created a new model that predicts the ease with which individuals produce and comprehend complex sentences.
The specific types of words children learn first can be a predictor of early language difficulties.
