FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology·November 25, 2020·3 min readExploring Links Between Infant Vocabulary Size and Vocal Interactions With CaregiversCertain types of interactions between parents and babies result in greater infant vocabulary.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·August 12, 2020·3 min readAdaptation in Single Neurons Provides Memory for Language ProcessingWorking memory for language processing can be provided by the down-regulation of neural excitability in response to external input.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·February 24, 2020·3 min readWhy 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, 2020·4 min readLanguage 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, 2020·4 min readLinguistics: The pronunciation paradoxSecond language learners can hear pronunciation errors fellow learners make but tend to overestimate the quality of their own pronunciation.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·February 3, 2020·5 min readParentese helps parents, babies make ‘conversation’ and boosts language developmentParents who speak to their infant in parentese, or baby-talk, help increase their child's language acquisition skills.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology·November 4, 2019·5 min readAnger, 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, 2019·2 min readLinguists 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, 2019·3 min readWhat 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, 2019·3 min readDiverse 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
FeaturedNeuroscience·August 27, 2019·3 min readWomen are beautiful, men rationalAccording 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
FeaturedNeuroscience·July 26, 2019·5 min readThe ‘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