Latest

language

This is a drawing of a couple hugging and music notes

·February 9, 2021·4 min read

Key Metaphors in the Most Popular Love Songs Speak of Proximity and Possession

Metaphors represent over 70% of figurative language used to convey love and emotion in pop music. Over two-thirds of love songs reflect the correlation between physical proximity and possession.

This shows an empty speech bubble against a gray background

Auditory Neuroscience Featured Open Neuroscience Articles Psychology

·February 9, 2021·2 min read

Recognizing Liars From the Sound of Their Voice?

Study identifies key factors in peoples' voices that show when they are lying.

This shows the word "welcome" written in different languages in the shape of a heart

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·January 25, 2021·2 min read

Growing up in a Bilingual Home Has Lasting Benefits

Children who grow up in a bilingual household are quicker at shifting their attention and faster at detecting visual changes than adults who learned a second language later in life.

This shows the outline of a head with a brain drawn inside

Featured Neuroscience

·January 25, 2021·3 min read

Stimulating Brain Pathways Shows Origins of Human Language and Memory

The evolutionary development for both human and primate brains may have been similar for communication and memory.

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·January 2, 2021·3 min read

Do Toddlers Learning to Spoon-Feed Seek Different Information From Caregivers’ Hands & Faces?

During mealtimes, a toddler's gaze toward either the hands or face has different roles in communication.

This shows words written in bright colors on a woman's hands

Featured Psychology

·December 28, 2020·4 min read

Link Between Word Choices and Extraverts

Extraverts tend to use more "positive emotional" and "social process" words when talking, researchers report.

This shows a brain wearing glasses and computer code

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·December 15, 2020·5 min read

To the Brain, Reading Computer Code Is Not the Same as Reading Language

Interpreting computer code activates general-purpose brain networks, but not language processing areas.

Featured Neuroscience

·December 9, 2020·4 min read

Brains Work Harder While Processing Descriptions of Motion in Other Languages

Our brains work harder to process information when we read about movement in a way that is not typical of our native languages.

This shows a woman learning different languages

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·December 8, 2020·4 min read

Researchers Share Database for Studying Individual Differences in Language Skills

A new dataset is available for researchers to investigate individual differences in adult language learning.

Featured Neuroscience

·December 7, 2020·3 min read

How the Brain Distinguishes Fact From Possibility

The human brain contains a perspective-adjusted neural representation for factual information and more elusive cortical signaling representing the computations of possibilities.

Auditory Neuroscience Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·December 3, 2020·2 min read

The Surprising Grammar of Touch

Study reveals grammar is evident and widespread in communication based on tactile interaction. The findings reveal that if one or more linguistic channel is unavailable, such as hearing or vision, structures will find another way to create formal categories.