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·October 10, 2019·2 min read

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

Reviewing over thirty years of diaries from a patient diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, linguists discover how writing style changes as dementia progresses.

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·September 13, 2019·3 min read

What multilingual nuns can tell us about dementia

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.

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·August 30, 2019·3 min read

Diverse linguistic environment boosts brain sensitivity to new learning

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

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·August 27, 2019·3 min read

Women are beautiful, men rational

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.

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·July 26, 2019·5 min read

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

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.

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·July 13, 2019·4 min read

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

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.

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·April 26, 2019·5 min read

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

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

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·April 2, 2019·4 min read

How the brain finds meaning in metaphor

EEG study reveals the use of metaphors elicits bigger N400s in the brain than abstract verbs.

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·March 31, 2019·3 min read

April Fools hoax stories could offer clues to help identify ‘fake news’

A machine learning classifier identified, with over 65% accuracy, April Fools hoaxes and fake news stories. Based on the findings, researchers present guidelines for recognizing April Fools hoaxes and fake news stories in the media.