Jan. 3, 2024 Sentences with greater linguistic complexity are most likely to fire up a key brain language processing center, according to a study that employed an artificial language ...
Jan. 3, 2024 Acetaminophen is considered the safest over-the-counter pain reliever and fever reducer available during pregnancy. Studies have shown that 50%-65% of women in North America and Europe take ...
Jan. 3, 2024 The temporary, repeated hearing loss caused by chronic ear infections can affect language skills years ...
Dec. 20, 2023 In a recent study, researchers systematically tested an early version of ChatGPT's understanding of statements in six categories: facts, conspiracies, controversies, misconceptions, stereotypes, ...
Dec. 13, 2023 In the largest study yet of deep neural networks trained to perform auditory tasks, researchers found most of these models generate internal representations that share properties of representations ...
Dec. 8, 2023 Neuroscientists have obtained the first direct recordings of the human brain in the minutes before and after a brain hub crucial for language meaning was surgically disconnected. The results reveal ...
Dec. 1, 2023 Phonetic information -- the smallest sound elements of speech -- may not be the basis of language learning in babies as previously thought. Babies don't begin to process phonetic information ...
Nov. 30, 2023 Four in five primary caregivers of nine-month-old babies reported cuddling, talking and playing with their little one several times a day, in the first national long-term study of babies in over two ...
Nov. 27, 2023 New research has shown that extra practice in blending printed letter sounds can help struggling beginner readers (age 4-5) learn to ...
Nov. 21, 2023 Results showed that bilinguals seem to be more efficient at ignoring information that's irrelevant, rather than suppressing -- or inhibiting information. ...
Nov. 14, 2023 Researchers incorporate language ideologies, along with the impact of interaction between individuals with opposing preferences, on the language shift process. The team chose a quantitative approach ...
Nov. 6, 2023 A speech prosthetic developed by a collaborative team of neuroscientists, neurosurgeons and engineers can translate a person's brain signals into what they're trying to say. The new ...
Nov. 2, 2023 A new study suggests the way a language divides up color space can be influenced by contact with other languages. Tsimane' people who learned Spanish as a second language began to classify blue ...
Oct. 30, 2023 Researchers have found that languages around the world have words for 'this' and 'that'. The 45-strong international team studied 29 languages from around the world including ...
Oct. 26, 2023 Adult listening abilities are critical to the ability to understand children's early linguistic efforts, according to new ...
Oct. 25, 2023 Researchers have now developed a technique that advances the ability of these tools, such as ChatGPT, to make compositional generalizations. This technique, Meta-learning for Compositionality, ...
Oct. 24, 2023 Two different regions of the brain are critical to integrating semantic information while reading, which could shed more light on why people with aphasia have difficulty with semantics, according to ...
Oct. 17, 2023 Scientists examining the evolutionary roots of language say they've discovered chimp vocal development is not far off from ...
Oct. 17, 2023 A new study has examined the role of several cognitive functions in young students learning to write English, their second language. The study conducted a battery of cognitive tests, gauged the ...
Oct. 12, 2023 Shyness can influence a child’s performance in language assessments, depending on the level of social interaction required to complete the ...