FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology·May 23, 2017·3 min readRecreational Cocaine: Brain Area Associated With Addiction Activated Earlier Than ThoughtAccording to researchers, people who consider themselves to be recreational cocaine users may be closer to addiction than they think.Read More
FeaturedPsychology·May 23, 2017·6 min readAnalyzing Children’s Ability to Detect ‘Sins of Omission’According to researchers, under the right conditions, children as young as 4 can discern misleading, but technically accurate, information.Read More
FeaturedPsychology·May 9, 2017·4 min readTell Me What Languages You Know and I’ll Tell You How You ReadFindings could have positive implications for education and teaching bilingual children how to read.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·May 2, 2017·4 min readLanguage Shapes How the Brain Perceives TimeA new study reports bilingual people think about time differently depending on the language context they are estimating event duration.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·April 20, 2017·5 min readRecognizing Foreign Accents Helps Brain Process Accented SpeechIf we can recognize the accent we hear, our brains are able to process foreign accented speech with better real time accuracy, a new study reports.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·April 19, 2017·4 min readMeasuring Effects of Sentence Structure in the BrainA new study reveals how the brain combines words into phrases when reading.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·April 17, 2017·6 min readRepeating Non-Verbs as Well as Verbs Can Boost the Syntactic Priming EffectA new study reports syntactic priming can be boosted by repeating non-verbs, as well as verbs.Read More
FeaturedPsychology·April 6, 2017·5 min readNew Study of the Words “A” And “The” Sheds Light on Language AcquisitionResearchers suggest that while experience is important for early language acquisition, it does not account for all of a child's language facility.Read More
AutismFeatured·March 1, 2017·7 min readAdults With Autism Overcome Childhood Language ChallengesResearchers report the brain can learn to compensate for language processing problems in adults with autism.Read More
FeaturedOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology·February 9, 2017·4 min readWords Can Sound “Round” or “Sharp” Without Us Realizing ItNew research on the bouba-kiki effect reveals crossmodal mapping occurs independently on conscious awareness.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·January 27, 2017·3 min readMemory Limits Give Rise to Open Ended Language AbilitiesHow we remember sequences helps give rise to language like systems of reusable structural patterns, a new study reports.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·January 18, 2017·4 min readAdoptees Advantaged By Birth Language MemoryA new study reports adoptees who had early life exposure to their native language may subconsciously retain retain fragments of the language structure, even if no conscious memory of the language remains.Read More
