Here’s how you help kids crack the reading code
Learning letter-sound correspondences early provides the best possible basis to learning how to read.... Read More...
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Late talkers twice as likely to have severe, frequent temper tantrums
Toddlers who were late talkers had more severe temper tantrums, and the risk of having a tantrum was 1.96 times greater than their peers with typical language development.... Read More...
Humans’ ability to read dogs’ facial expressions is learned, not innate
The human ability to recognize the facial expressions of dogs is acquired through age and experience and is not an evolutionarily selected trait.... Read More...
Anger, anxiety, insomnia: Tweets from Twitter users could predict loneliness
Linguistic analytic models found users who tweet about loneliness post significantly more frequently about mental health concerns, relationship problems, and insomnia.... Read More...
Screen-based media associated with structural differences in brains of young children
Study reveals lower microstructural integrity in white matter tracts supporting language and emergent literacy skills in prekindergarten aged children exposed to excessive screen time media.... Read More...
Faith, truth and forgiveness: How your brain processes abstract thoughts
The human brain acts like an indexing system to help compose the meaning of abstract concepts.... Read More...
What 26,000 books reveal when it comes to learning language
Machine learning finds you can take a person's language behavior and estimate the types of material they have read.... Read More...
Finding Upends Theory about the Cerebellum’s Role in Reading and Dyslexia
New findings dispute the popular cerebellar deficit hypothesis of dyslexia. Researchers report the cerebellum is not engaged during reading in typical readers and does not differ in children with dyslexia.... Read More...
Linguists track impact of cognitive decline across three decades of one writer’s diaries
Reviewing over thirty years of diaries from a patient diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, linguists discover how writing style changes as dementia progresses.... Read More...
Neuroimaging reveals hidden communication between brain layers during reading
Stronger activation for words over pseudo-words was seen in deep layers of the visual word form area. The activation caused top-down projections from higher language areas of the brain.... Read More...
Mechanisms of real-time speech interpretation in the human brain revealed
Study reveals the dynamic patterns of information flow between critical language regions of the brain.... Read More...
Teenagers less likely to respond to mothers with controlling tone of voice
Mothers who address their teens with a neutral tone of voice elicit more positive and less negative emotions in their children, increasing closeness. Those who speak with a controlling tone evoke negative emotions and have a less close bond with their teenage child.... Read More...