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·May 13, 2023·3 min read

Stress Hormone in Pregnancy Bolsters Child’s Early Language Skills

Higher cortisol levels, a stress hormone, during the third trimester of pregnancy may boost speech and language skills in early childhood. A new study analyzed data from over 1,000 Danish women and children, finding that boys exposed to high prenatal cortisol levels could say more words, while girls understood more words at an earlier age.

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·April 26, 2023·5 min read

Baby Talk: Babies’ Language Acquisition Relies on Pitch and Rhythm

A new study reveals that prosody - rhythm, melodic stress, pitch, pauses - plays a fundamental role in babies' language acquisition and cognitive development, improving their ability to identify distant grammatical regularities. The study highlights the crucial impact of subtle pitch changes in processing statistical information in early childhood and sheds light on the role of prosody in language acquisition.

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·April 25, 2023·4 min read

Gray Matter Volume Linked to Language Deficits in Autism

Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) who have language impairment show lower gray matter volume and greater gyrification in the temporal and frontal lobes of the cerebral cortex, which are crucial for language function. The study's findings could help design specialized education programs for children with autism by understanding the structural characteristics that contribute to behavioral deficits.

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·April 20, 2023·8 min read

Beyond Words: Children Use Cognitive Skills in Language Learning

A new study challenges widely held assumptions about language acquisition in children, finding language learning and cognitive skills are interconnected.

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·April 19, 2023·4 min read

Why Some Children May Be Slower to Learn Words

Children with larger vocabularies look directly and quickly towards an object when learning new words, while those with smaller vocabularies look back and forth between objects and have a slower response time.

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·April 17, 2023·5 min read

Two Brain Networks Are Activated While Reading

Two distinct networks in the frontal and temporal lobes become activated and work in unison to integrate the meaning of words in order to obtain a higher-order and more complex meaning when reading.

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·April 17, 2023·7 min read

Can You Describe a Sensation Without Feeling It First?

A new study that examined people without somatosensation reveals direct sensory experience is not required to understand or use abstract metaphors or language about sensations.

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·April 7, 2023·5 min read

In Bilingual Readers, the Visual Cortex Processes Latin and Chinese Characters Differently

In people who are bilingual in English and Chinese, certain cortical areas react specifically to Chinese ideograms and appear to be involved in facial recognition processing.

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·April 2, 2023·2 min read

English Language Pushes Everyone, Even AI Chatbots, to Improve by Adding

Researchers say the bias in the English language that leads us to improve communication by adding more detail is so common that it's even ingrained into chatbots like ChatGPT.

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·March 21, 2023·5 min read

Readers Found to Rely on Word Spelling Rather Than Sound in Reading

Both adults and young children rely on orthographic information, or letter image and word length, over phonological information when reading.

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·March 17, 2023·3 min read

How Our Native Language Shapes Our Brain Wiring

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.

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·March 9, 2023·3 min read

How Swearing Gets Its Power to Elicit Emotional Responses

Researchers say profanity is a more powerful and entirely different form of communication, evoking differences in emotion, compared to regular language use.

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language

Stress Hormone in Pregnancy Bolsters Child’s Early Language Skills

Baby Talk: Babies’ Language Acquisition Relies on Pitch and Rhythm

Gray Matter Volume Linked to Language Deficits in Autism

Beyond Words: Children Use Cognitive Skills in Language Learning

Why Some Children May Be Slower to Learn Words

Two Brain Networks Are Activated While Reading

Can You Describe a Sensation Without Feeling It First?

In Bilingual Readers, the Visual Cortex Processes Latin and Chinese Characters Differently

English Language Pushes Everyone, Even AI Chatbots, to Improve by Adding

Readers Found to Rely on Word Spelling Rather Than Sound in Reading

How Our Native Language Shapes Our Brain Wiring

How Swearing Gets Its Power to Elicit Emotional Responses

Jiving into Joy: Dance Sessions Elevate Health and Well-being in 85+ Age Group

New Insights Into Synaptic Pruning During Brain Development

Childhood IQ and Wealth: Uncovering Diverse Financial Paths in Adulthood

Stressed Brains Amplify Comfort Food Cravings

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