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Why Edgar Allan Poe probably did not kill himself

Neuroscience NewsFebruary 24, 2020

Computerized language analysis reveals linguistic markers of depression were found in Poe's personal letters and professional writing, but none are consistent with suicidal ideations.... Read More...

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Language disorders as indicators of the diagnosis and progression of Huntington’s disease

Neuroscience NewsFebruary 20, 2020

Study reports it may be possible to detect the onset and progression of Huntington's disease through linguistic changes in patients. Linguistic impairments often begin before the onset of other Huntington's symptoms.... Read More...

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Linguistics: The pronunciation paradox

Neuroscience NewsFebruary 8, 2020

Second language learners can hear pronunciation errors fellow learners make but tend to overestimate the quality of their own pronunciation.... Read More...

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Parentese helps parents, babies make ‘conversation’ and boosts language development

Neuroscience NewsFebruary 3, 2020

Parents who speak to their infant in parentese, or baby-talk, help increase their child's language acquisition skills.... Read More...

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Anger, anxiety, insomnia: Tweets from Twitter users could predict loneliness

Neuroscience NewsNovember 4, 2019

Linguistic analytic models found users who tweet about loneliness post significantly more frequently about mental health concerns, relationship problems, and insomnia.... Read More...

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Linguists track impact of cognitive decline across three decades of one writer’s diaries

Neuroscience NewsOctober 10, 2019

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...

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What multilingual nuns can tell us about dementia

Neuroscience NewsSeptember 13, 2019

While being multilingual did not delay the onset of dementia for those at risk, nuns who spoke four or more languages were significantly less likely to develop dementia than those who spoke just one language.... Read More...

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Diverse linguistic environment boosts brain sensitivity to new learning

Neuroscience NewsAugust 30, 2019

Living in a linguistically diverse environment helps promote more effective learning of new languages for monolingual people.... Read More...

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Women are beautiful, men rational

Neuroscience NewsAugust 27, 2019

According to a new machine learning algorithm, men are typically described in terms that refer to their behavior, while women are referred to in terms associated with physical appearance in fiction and non-fiction.... Read More...

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The ‘blowfish effect’: Children learn new words like adults do

Neuroscience NewsJuly 26, 2019

Both adults and young children assign a narrower interpretation to a word if it is exemplified by an atypical category member. The study sheds new light on how children learn to see, talk and understand the world around them.... Read More...

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The voice is key to making sense of the words in our brain

Neuroscience NewsJuly 13, 2019

The speed of spoken word recognition is affected by how the speaker talks. Study finds sound waves from the voice effectively transmit information beyond the lexical meaning of words.... Read More...

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Meaning Without Words: Gestures and Visual Animations Reveal Cognitive Origins of Linguistic Meaning

Neuroscience NewsApril 26, 2019

Gestures and visual animation assist in allowing us to understand the cognitive origins of linguistic meanings.... Read More...

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Why Edgar Allan Poe probably did not kill himself

Language disorders as indicators of the diagnosis and progression of Huntington’s disease

Linguistics: The pronunciation paradox

Parentese helps parents, babies make ‘conversation’ and boosts language development

Linguists track impact of cognitive decline across three decades of one writer’s diaries

What multilingual nuns can tell us about dementia

Diverse linguistic environment boosts brain sensitivity to new learning

Women are beautiful, men rational

The ‘blowfish effect’: Children learn new words like adults do

The voice is key to making sense of the words in our brain

Meaning Without Words: Gestures and Visual Animations Reveal Cognitive Origins of Linguistic Meaning