FeaturedNeuroscience·June 12, 2017·4 min readBilingual Children Are Better at Recognizing VoicesAccording to researchers, bilingual children perform better at voice recognition and processing than monolingual children.Read More
FeaturedOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology·June 7, 2017·3 min readCultural Background Linked to How People Deceive OthersAccording to researchers, a person's cultural background influences their language changes when they enter into a deceptive statement.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology·May 26, 2017·5 min readMonkey Say: Marmosets Learn to Call the Same Way Human Babies Learn to BabbleJust as a baby's babbles begin to sound more like recognizable human speech if they receive frequent vocal feedback from adults, the same kind of interaction speeds up speech acquisition in marmosets, a new study reveals.Read More
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
