News tagged with psycholinguistics
Listen up, parents: For toddlers (and chimps), the majority rules
A study published online on April 12 in the journal Current Biology offers some news for parents: even toddlers have a tendency to follow the crowd. That sensitivity isn't unique to humans either; chimpanzees also a ...
Apr 12, 2012 |
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Humans like to work together in solving tasks, chimps don't
Recent studies have shown that chimpanzees possess many of the cognitive prerequisites necessary for humanlike collaboration. Cognitive abilities, however, might not be all that differs between chimpanzees ...
Oct 13, 2011 |
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Historical context guides language development
Not only do we humans enjoy talking -- and talking a lot -- we also do so in very different ways: about 6,000 languages are spoken today worldwide. How this wealth of expression developed, however, largely remains a mystery. ...
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Apr 14, 2011 |
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A glove on your hand can change your mind
(PhysOrg.com) -- Unconsciously, right-handers associate good with the right side of space and bad with the left. But this association can be rapidly changed, according to a study published online March 9, ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 10, 2011 |
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Maltese-English Dictionary to be Digitized
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Arizona linguist Adam Ussishkin has headed up an effort to update and digitize the Maltese-English dictionary of record. The new searchable database will enable scholars and ...
Sep 28, 2010 |
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Good and bad in the hands of politicians
"In laboratory tests, right- and left-handers associate positive ideas like honesty and intelligence with their dominant side of space and negative ideas with their non-dominant side," says Daniel Casasanto ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 29, 2010 |
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Children use space to think about time
Space and time are intertwined in our thoughts, as they are in the physical world. For centuries, philosophers have debated exactly how these dimensions are related in the human mind. According to a paper to appear in the ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 31, 2010 |
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Foreign subtitles improve speech perception
Do you speak English as a second language well, but still have trouble understanding movies with unfamiliar accents, such as Brad Pitt's southern accent in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds? In a new study, published ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 11, 2009 |
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Lefty or Righty? A new hold on how we think
(PhysOrg.com) -- Whether you’re a lefty or righty, chances are you never thought your dominant hand played a role in the decisions you make. But what may seem as an unimportant trait might actually influence ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 06, 2009 |
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Race and gender determine how politicians speak
Race and gender influence the way politicians speak, which is not always to their advantage. Camelia Suleiman from Florida International University and Daniel O'Connell from Georgetown University in the US have come to this ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 13, 2009 |
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