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Mind and matter: Modeling the human brain with machine learning
Researchers from Japan construct a human brain model using a machine learning-based optimization of required user information
Wearable sensors with wide-ranging strain sensitivity
Researchers draw inspiration from snake skin in sensor’s structural design
How learning Braille changes brain structure over time
White matter reorganizes at specific time points to meet the needs of the brain
Study of indigenous language education in Russia leads to intercontinental collaboration
A publication by Kazan Federal University saw light in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.
Why we need to talk openly about vaccine side effects
We need to talk openly about vaccine side effects if we are to defeat the coronavirus pandemic
Why insisting you’re not racist may backfire
Experimental study finds white people often send the opposite message when they explain why they’re not prejudiced
Language technologies: Zoom acquires KIT’s spin-off kites
Computer scientists from KIT are experts for real-time speech recognition and translation – kites team to help improve Zoom’s machine translation
Researchers explore how children learn language
Small children learn language at a pace far faster than teenagers or adults. One explanation for this learning advantage comes not from differences between children and adults, but from the differences in the way that people talk to children and…
Using computation to improve words: Novel tool could improve serious illness conversations
Conversations between seriously ill people, their families and palliative care specialists lead to better quality-of-life. Understanding what happens during these conversations – and particularly how they vary by cultural, clinical, and situational contexts – is essential to guide healthcare communication…
How children integrate information
Researchers use a computer model to explain how children integrate information during word learning
Keep your friends close, cortisol levels low for life
Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign determined that communicating with female friends decreases stress hormone levels for women across the lifespan
Finding support for India during its COVID-19 surge
Research identified tweets from Pakistan supportive of India during crisis
Researchers translate a bird’s brain activity into song
Study demonstrates the possibilities of a future speech prosthesis for humans
SAGE’s 10-year impact awards honor research with influence 10 years after publication
Authors of three scientific papers–two from the social and behavioral sciences (SBS) and one from science, technology, and medicine (STM)–are receiving SAGE Publishing’s second annual 10-Year Impact Awards. The awards recognize the authors of papers published in SAGE Journals 10…
Impact of digitization on democracies
Joint Symposium of the Science Academies of Germany, Israel and the USA
Sealed, signed and delivered
Hebrew University archaeologists unveil 7,000-year-old seal impressions used for commerce and protection of property
Language extinction triggers loss of unique medicinal knowledge
Language is one of our species’ most important skills, as it has enabled us to occupy nearly every corner of the planet. Among other things, language allows indigenous societies to use the biodiversity that surrounds them as a “living pharmacy”…
The UOC and UB promote the first Spanish-speaking association of Specific Language Impairment
The social consequences of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) and its effects on memory and attention span are among the studies to be presented at CHITEL 2021
Acoustics in Focus: Virtual press conference schedule for 180th ASA Meeting
Media representatives can register to attend; topics cover pandemic, vocals, moth wings
Lack of math education negatively affects adolescent brain and cognitive development
A new study suggests that not having any math education after the age of 16 can be disadvantageous
Correcting misperceptions about, and increasing empathy for, migrants
Americans dramatically overestimate the number of migrants affiliated with gangs and children being trafficked
Getting they/them pronouns right
Carolina study shows announcing pronouns improves how pronouns are understood
Bilingualism as a natural therapy for autistic children
An international team led by UNIGE demonstrates that the characteristics of bilingualism allow autistic children to compensate for certain fundamental deficits
Study finds age doesn’t affect perception of ‘speech-to-song illusion’
LAWRENCE — A strange thing sometimes happens when we listen to a spoken phrase again and again: It begins to sound like a song. This phenomenon, called the “speech-to-song illusion,” can offer a window into how the mind operates and…
Artificial intelligence agreement to advance Army modernization efforts
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The U.S. Army plans to cooperate in artificial intelligence research with teams led by the University of Maryland, College Park and in partnership with the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. The cooperative agreement brings together a…
Trust among corvids
Siberian jays are group living birds within the corvid family that employ a wide repertoire of calls to warn each other of predators. Sporadically, however, birds use one of these calls to trick their neighbouring conspecifics and gain access to…
$2 million grant to examine what drives promotion and tenure outcomes in higher ed
University of Houston leads research project funded by National Science Foundation
Electric fish — and humans — pause before communicating key points
American writer and humorist Mark Twain, a master of language and noted lecturer, once offered, “The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.” Electric fish and today’s TED talk speakers…
Researchers shed light on the evolution of extremist groups
Findings suggest new strategies to limit the growth of groups like the Boogaloo and ISIS
A new theory for what’s happening in the brain when something looks familiar
This novel concept from University of Pennsylvania neuroscientist Nicole Rust brings the field one step closer to understanding how memory functions. Long-term, it could have implications for treating memory-impairing diseases like Alzheimer’s
What happens in the brain when we imagine the future?
Research from University of Pennsylvania neuroscientist Joseph Kable finds that two sub-networks are at work, one focused on creating the new event, another on evaluating whether that event is positive or negative
Literary and film historians propose five key concepts for reflection on global literary studies
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) is organizing an international symposium to analyze literary and film history and the cultural processes, texts and agents involved, from a perspective that seeks to be transnational, gender-based and decentralized
Socioeconomic status non-factor in worse COVID-19 for racial, ethnic groups in Twin Cities
A U of M Medical School study says non-English speaking also contributes to worse outcomes, independent of race, ethnicity and socioeconomic status
Understanding how people make sense of the news they consume
How people consume news and take actions based on what they read, hear or see, is different than how human brains process other types of information on a daily basis, according to researchers at the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
Ancestors may have created ‘iconic’ sounds as bridge to first languages
The ‘missing link’ that helped our ancestors to begin communicating with each other through language may have been iconic sounds, rather than charades-like gestures – giving rise to the unique human power to coin new words describing the world around us, a new study reveals.
English as a medium of instruction in higher education across the globe
A new study provides a profile of teachers around the world who provide English Medium Instruction (EMI) in higher education, in which the English language is used to teach academic subjects (other than English itself) in countries where the first…
Forgery of official documents by monks was rife across medieval Europe, new book shows
Forgery of official documents by monks was rife across medieval Europe because of social changes and the growing importance of the written word, a new book shows. Fake documentation began to be produced in earnest in the tenth century across…
Living in megacities
A new focus in English linguistics
Study finds US Twitter users have strongly supported face coverings amid the pandemic
An analysis of Twitter activity between March 1 and Aug. 1, 2020, found strong support by U.S. users for wearing face coverings and that a media focus on anti-mask opinions fueled the rhetoric of those opposed, report University of Oregon researchers.
The sounds in a Pokémon name impact how players perceive the creature
Characters with harsh syllables in their names were judged to be stronger, heavier and larger
Psst! Have you heard that gossip isn’t all bad?
Gossip creates social connections and allows for learning about the world indirectly
Research shows to disrupt online extremism freewill is key
Douglas Wilbur ’14, a visiting Ph.D. scholar in the Department of Communication at UTSA, has published a study that shows how researchers can craft message campaigns to protect individuals from adopting extremist views.
Multilingual people have an advantage over those fluent in only two languages
Multilingual people have trained their brains to learn languages, making it easier to acquire more new languages after mastering a second or third.
Poor judgment of autistic adults
Concerns for fair treatment in courts and community
Multilingual people have an advantage over those fluent in only two languages
UTokyo-MIT study measures brain activity while learning basic sounds, grammar rules of unfamiliar language
More support needed for two children in every class with hidden language disorder
University of Bath Press release
Infants’ language skills more advanced than first words suggest
Babies can recognise combinations of words even before they have uttered their first word, a study suggests, challenging ideas of how children learn language.
Screams of ‘joy’ sound like ‘fear’ when heard out of context
The first in-depth look at the human ability to decode the range of emotions tied to the acoustic cues of screams
How to talk to people about climate change
As our planet warms, seas rise and catastrophic weather events become more frequent, action on climate change has never been more important. But how do you convince people who still don’t believe that humans contribute to the warming climate? New…