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How speech propels pathogens
Speech and singing spread saliva droplets, a phenomenon that has attracted much attention in the current context of the Covid-19 pandemic. Scientists from the CNRS, l’université de Montpellier, and Princeton University* sought to shed light on what takes place during…
Clarigent Health launches Clairity to support mental health risk reduction
Clairity supports clinical decisions and care with AI analysis of patient speech, treatment progress trends, and risk radar across patient groups
RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection preserves Hebrew wood type
Rare collection includes wood types used to print ‘The Forward’
Artificial intelligence in art: a simple tool or creative genius?
Intelligent algorithms are used to create paintings, write poems, and compose music.
Artificial intelligence in art: a simple tool or creative genius?
A study shows how language humanizes AI
Arnhem Land Maliwawa rock art opens window to past
Stunning Arnhem Land rock art images including three rare depictions of bilbies and a dugong have been described by researchers in a new paper in Australian Archaeology today (Oct 1). Led by Professor Paul Taçon, Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow…
Welsh-medium school pupils underperform in tests despite more advantaged backgrounds
Secondary schools in Wales that teach pupils through the medium of Welsh are outperformed by their English-speaking counterparts in maths, reading and science tests, according to a new study by Lancaster University.
Assessment of disparities in COVID-19 testing, infection across language groups in Seattle
What The Study Did: Researchers evaluated the proportion of patients who completed COVID-19 testing and the proportion of positive cases using language as a surrogate for immigrant status. Authors: H. Nina Kim, M.D., M.Sc., and Herbert C. Duber, M.D., M.P.H.,…
Fostering ‘political’ attitude adjustments
MU study proposes narrative writing exercise as way to reduce polarization in US politics
uOttawa, Taiwan’s National Dong Hwa promote Indigenous academic and research initiatives
The University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Social Sciences is joining forces with Taiwan’s National Dong Hwa University College of Indigenous Studies (NDHU-CIS) to promote Indigenous Studies after signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on academic and research cooperation. The aim…
Complex phonological tests are useful for diagnosing reading dysfunction
HSE University researchers have confirmed that the level of phonological processing skills in children can impact their ability to master reading. Complex phonological tests are best suited to detect phonological impairment. The study was published on September 6, 2020, in…
Consumers value difficult decisions over easy choices
New findings have implications in marketing communications
New research shows how fast our brains are at ‘recording’ new words
How much time does a brain need to learn a new word? A team of Skoltech researchers and their colleagues monitored changes in brain activity associated with learning new words and found that cortical representations of the sound and meaning…
Women hold prominent roles, publish more in ‘open science’ vs. ‘reproducibility’ model
Analyses reveal that two common practices to improve science – ‘open science’ and ‘reproducibility / replicability’ – operate independently and that collaborative, prosocial ‘open science’ could point the way toward more diversity in science
Peruvian Amazonian shaman rose to power in early 20th century
Book by Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute anthropologist describes life of shaman, tasorentsi
Paul de Lagarde (1827-1891) – scholar and anti-Semite
Research team from Göttingen and Potsdam examines the intellectual legacy of the Göttingen Orientalist
Emotion vocabulary reflects state of well-being, study suggests
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 10, 2020 – Vocabulary that one uses to describe their emotions is an indicator of mental and physical health and overall well-being, according to an analysis led by a scientist at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine…
RIT/NTID researchers study how deaf and hearing people watch sign language
Eye gaze movements tell how well a person can understand sign language
Brain stimulation reduces dyslexia deficits
Restoring normal patterns of rhythmic neural activity through non-invasive electrical stimulation of the brain alleviates sound-processing deficits and improves reading accuracy in adults with dyslexia, according to a study published September 8, 2020 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by…
Children use both brain hemispheres to understand language, unlike adults
WASHINGTON — Infants and young children have brains with a superpower, of sorts, say Georgetown University Medical Center neuroscientists. Whereas adults process most discrete neural tasks in specific areas in one or the other of their brain’s two hemispheres, youngsters…
EU research funding in the millions for Saarbrücken-based computational linguist
People infer things beyond what is literally said – and everyone makes his or her own assumptions. This fact poses a major difficulty for computers. For her research project on this topic, Vera Demberg has received the prestigious ERC Starting…
How to render AI linguistically more intelligent
Dirk Hovy, Bocconi University, has won a 1.5 million euro ERC Starting Grant. His project introduces demographic factors into language processing systems to improve algorithmic performance, avoid racism and sexism and enable new applications
Aspirated consonants may promote the spread of COVID-19, RUDN University linguist says
According to a linguist from RUDN University, the number of COVID-19 cases in a country might be related to the existence of aspirated consonants in its main language of communication.
Strokes in babies are surprisingly common. Here’s how the body rushes to the rescue.
New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine is shedding light on the development of the brain’s immune defenses – and how those defenses respond to strokes that strike one in 4,000 babies in the first month of…
When two tribes go to war — how tribalism polarized the Brexit social media debate
Tribal behaviour on social media widened the gulf between Remain and Leave voters in the United Kingdom’s debate whether to leave the European Union, re-aligned the UK’s political landscape, and made people increasingly susceptible to disinformation campaigns, new research from the University of Bath shows.
Mother bats use baby talk to communicate with their pups
When talking to babies, humans slow down their speech, raise their pitch and change the “color” of their voice.
Words used to describe alcohol intoxication may give clues to drinking habits
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — People have always used different words to describe the inebriating effects of alcohol, from “blotto” in the 1920s to “honkers” in the 1950s. Now, new Penn State research suggests the language young adults use to describe…
Federal and state websites flunk COVID-19 reading-level review
Online pages used long sentences, complex wording when sharing health info
Naming guides how 12-month-old infants encode and remember objects
Encoding objects in memory and recalling them later is fundamental to human cognition
Machine learning reveals role of culture in shaping meanings of words
What do we mean by the word beautiful? It depends not only on whom you ask, but in what language you ask them. According to a machine learning analysis of dozens of languages conducted at Princeton University, the meaning of…
Adaptation in single neurons provides memory for language processing
Did the man bite the dog, or was it the other way around? When processing an utterance, words need to be assembled into the correct interpretation within working memory. One aspect of comprehension is to establish ‘who did what to…
Authors’ ‘invisible’ words reveal blueprint for storytelling
AUSTIN, Texas — The “invisible” words that shaped Dickens classics also lead audiences through Spielberg dramas. And according to new research, these small words can be found in a similar pattern across most storylines, no matter the length or format.…
Tip sheet for joint statistical meetings Aug. 2 – 6, 2020
Statistics and data science research highlights
Humanizing hotel brands during COVID-19 could encourage tourists to return
Hotels should build an emotional attachment with tourists when communicating during crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic if they are to encourage them to return, according to new research.
Humanizing hotel brands during COVID-19 could encourage tourists to return
Hotels should build an emotional attachment with tourists when communicating during crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic if they are to encourage them to return, according to new research. The study finds that crisis communication emphasising shared emotional responses to…
Even if you want to, you can’t ignore how people look or sound
Study has implications for racial stereotyping
How to get good at disagreeing
You may recognize yourself. You’re part of a group where everyone seems to agree more or less all the time. You may disagree, but you’d rather not speak up, and the others aren’t voicing any disagreement either. These meetings are…
NTU Singapore and Google Cloud develop rapid-response chatbot to address freshmen queries
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has rolled out a new virtual assistant powered by Google Cloud to help some 6,000 incoming freshmen transition to university life on the NTU Smart Campus. Named Project Lyon 2.0, the virtual assistant chatbot…
NTU Singapore and Google Cloud develop rapid-response chatbot to address freshmen queries
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has rolled out a new virtual assistant powered by Google Cloud to help some 6,000 incoming freshmen transition to university life on the NTU Smart Campus. Named Project Lyon 2.0, the virtual assistant chatbot…
Music on the brain
A neurological study of classical musicians trained in different styles
Owner behavior affects effort and accuracy in dogs’ communications
Human communication has evolved mechanisms that can be observed across all cultures and languages, including the use of communication history and the principle of least effort
German federal funding for research on the differentiation of style and topic in text data
German Ministry of Education and Research is funding Sophie Burkhardt to establish a Computer Science junior research group investigating how to independently control the content and style of texts generated using artificial intelligence
German federal funding for research on the differentiation of style and topic in text data
German Ministry of Education and Research is funding Sophie Burkhardt to establish a Computer Science junior research group investigating how to independently control the content and style of texts generated using artificial intelligence
Computational model decodes speech by predicting it
The brain analyses spoken language by recognising syllables. Scientists from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the Evolving Language National Centre for Competence in Research (NCCR) have designed a computational model that reproduces the complex mechanism employed by the central…
Variability in natural speech is challenging for the dyslexic brain
A new study brings neural-level evidence that the continuous variation in natural speech makes the discrimination of phonemes challenging for adults suffering from developmental reading-deficit dyslexia.
Twitter posts reveal polarization in Congress on COVID-19
Study shows how quickly parties diverged on pandemic
Twitter posts reveal polarization in Congress on COVID-19
Study shows how quickly parties diverged on pandemic
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