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FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·February 24, 2020Why Edgar Allan Poe probably did not kill himselfComputerized 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
FeaturedNeurologyNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·February 20, 2020Language disorders as indicators of the diagnosis and progression of Huntington’s diseaseStudy 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
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·February 8, 2020Linguistics: The pronunciation paradoxSecond 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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FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology·November 4, 2019Anger, anxiety, insomnia: Tweets from Twitter users could predict lonelinessLinguistic analytic models found users who tweet about loneliness post significantly more frequently about mental health concerns, relationship problems, and insomnia. Read More
FeaturedNeurologyNeuroscience·October 10, 2019Linguists track impact of cognitive decline across three decades of one writer’s diariesReviewing over thirty years of diaries from a patient diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, linguists discover how writing style changes as dementia progresses. Read More
FeaturedNeurologyNeuroscience·September 13, 2019What multilingual nuns can tell us about dementiaWhile 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
FeaturedNeuroscience·August 30, 2019Diverse linguistic environment boosts brain sensitivity to new learningLiving in a linguistically diverse environment helps promote more effective learning of new languages for monolingual people. Read More
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FeaturedNeuroscience·July 26, 2019The ‘blowfish effect’: Children learn new words like adults doBoth 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
FeaturedNeuroscience·July 13, 2019The voice is key to making sense of the words in our brainThe 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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