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
FeaturedNeuroscience·July 13, 2019·4 min readThe 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
Auditory NeuroscienceFeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesVisual Neuroscience·April 26, 2019·5 min readMeaning Without Words: Gestures and Visual Animations Reveal Cognitive Origins of Linguistic MeaningGestures and visual animation assist in allowing us to understand the cognitive origins of linguistic meanings.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·April 2, 2019·4 min readHow the brain finds meaning in metaphorEEG study reveals the use of metaphors elicits bigger N400s in the brain than abstract verbs.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·March 31, 2019·3 min readApril 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.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·March 18, 2019·4 min readResearch into aphasia reveals new interactions between language and thoughtProblems with counterfactive interpretation in those with aphasia are associated with a reduction of propositional, lexical and syntactic cognition.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology·February 4, 2019·3 min readWord Order Predicts a Native Speakers’ Working MemoryResearchers say the language we speak can affect the way in which we process, store and retrieve information.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·January 29, 2019·3 min readNewborn Babies Have Inbuilt Ability to Pick Out WordsUsing fNIRS, researchers discovered babies are able to pick out words from speech at as young as three days old.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·January 12, 2019·6 min readHearing Hate Speech Primes the Brain For Hateful ActionsResearchers report on how the brain is spurred into action by hearing certain words. They propose a new simulation theory that perceiving words can drive brain systems into states almost identical to what would be evoked by directly experiencing what the word describes.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·January 9, 2019·3 min readHow Words Get an Emotional MeaningResearchers used EEG to investigate how the brain processes stimuli to determine whether an image or word is positive or negative. The study found words associated with loss causes neural reactions in the visual cortex after 100 milliseconds.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·January 9, 2019·3 min readReading with Preschool Children Boosts Language by Eight MonthsAccording to researchers, reading with your preschool aged children can boost their language development by up to eight months. Receptive language skills are positively enhanced when a child reads along with a carer, the study reports.Read More
