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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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·February 28, 2023·5 min read

How Children Learn Emotion Labels Through Parents’ Speech

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.

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·February 8, 2023·3 min read

Toddlers’ Attention to ‘Motherese’ Speech May Be Used to Diagnose Autism

Toddlers on the autism spectrum who pay less attention to "motherese", or baby-talk, exhibited weaker social and language skills in later tests.

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·February 1, 2023·7 min read

A Subtitled World: Uncovering the Secrets of Tickertape Synesthesia

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.

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·January 19, 2023·4 min read

Repeating New Words Out Loud Isn’t Always the Best Way to Learn Them

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.

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·January 13, 2023·4 min read

Corpus Callosum Found to Switch off Right Hemisphere During Speech

Study confirms the role the corpus callosum plays in language lateralization.

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·January 13, 2023·6 min read

How Your Mood Affects the Way You Process Language

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.

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·January 7, 2023·4 min read

Speech Analysis Can Help Measure Diagnosis, Severity, and Onset of Mental Illness

Speech pattern analysis can help accurately diagnose depression and psychosis, measure the severity of symptoms, and predict the onset of mental health conditions.

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·December 22, 2022·8 min read

A New Model Explains Difficulty in Language Comprehension

Using advances in machine learning, researchers have created a new model that predicts the ease with which individuals produce and comprehend complex sentences.

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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

How Children Learn Emotion Labels Through Parents’ Speech

Toddlers’ Attention to ‘Motherese’ Speech May Be Used to Diagnose Autism

A Subtitled World: Uncovering the Secrets of Tickertape Synesthesia

Repeating New Words Out Loud Isn’t Always the Best Way to Learn Them

Corpus Callosum Found to Switch off Right Hemisphere During Speech

How Your Mood Affects the Way You Process Language

Speech Analysis Can Help Measure Diagnosis, Severity, and Onset of Mental Illness

A New Model Explains Difficulty in Language Comprehension

Psilocybin Unlocks Lost Memories in an Alzheimer’s Patient

GLP-1s Linked to Low Blood Pressure and Fainting Spikes

Autophagy Decline in Older Moms Halts Embryo Development

GLP-1 Therapies Silence Spontaneous Physical Activity

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