A recent study, published in Current Biology, led by researchers at Stockholm University and Uppsala University, has shown that juvenile songbirds react to hearing the songs they will eventually produce as adults, even when ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 25, 2022
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Unlike the carefully scripted dialogue found in most books and movies, the language of everyday interaction tends to be messy and incomplete, full of false starts, interruptions and people talking over each other. From casual ...
Social Sciences
Oct 19, 2022
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Researchers led by Matthew Fuxjager at Brown University, U.S. and Eric Schuppe at Wake Forest University, U.S. have found regions in the woodpecker forebrain that show characteristics that until now have only been associated ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 20, 2022
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When children develop the ability to understand language, as well as speak and communicate, this helps them interact with others and learn about their world. Research shows that children's early language skills have a long ...
Social Sciences
Sep 7, 2022
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The old adage of use it or lose it doesn't appear to run true when it comes to someone's ability to retain and use a foreign language, a new study has revealed.
Social Sciences
Aug 25, 2022
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While still in high school, Xinyi Liu worked briefly in a lab at Beihang University in Beijing and was surprised to see Chinese researchers routinely using Google Translate to generate the first English draft of scientific ...
Education
Aug 17, 2022
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Humor has a large role to play when it comes to engaging students in a classroom environment. By facilitating student laughter with appropriate jokes, quips, and visual humor, a teacher can make the learning experience immensely ...
Education
Jul 13, 2022
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For adults, communicating in our first language feels easy and natural. Yet learning language is a complex process that is influenced by several factors.
Social Sciences
May 3, 2022
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Deep learning–based language models, such as BERT, T5, XLNet and GPT, are promising for analyzing speech and texts. In recent years, however, they have also been applied in the fields of biomedicine and biotechnology to ...
Across languages and cultures, words that help direct caregivers' attention are likely to be among the first children learn and use frequently, according to a new Cornell study that is the largest ever, by sample size, of ...
Education
Apr 7, 2022
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