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7 news posts in Language

How language proficiency correlates with cognitive skills

Multilinguals may be better equipped at multitasking: Frontiers in Psychology

Comparing primate vocalizations

Study shows Old World monkeys combine items in speech — but only two and never more, unlike humans; Frontiers in Psychology

Young Minds

29 May 2019

Secrets of the Learning Brain

Jacobs Foundation supports Dutch neuroscientists to spread knowledge about the learning brain to our international younger audience.

Ancient cave art may be origin of modern language

Did humans speak through cave art? New paper links ancient drawings and language’s origins: Frontiers in Psychology

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Humanities

19 Sep 2017

Scientists list 50 terms you may be confusing

A paper in Frontiers in Education defines 50 terms that are commonly assumed to be similar, but in fact refer to very different concepts.

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Life sciences

15 Sep 2017

Iconic words critical to vocabulary acquisition in young children

Words whose form is linked to their meaning are critical to effective language learning in young children, finds a study in Frontiers in Communication.

Life sciences

06 Mar 2017

In politics, does rudeness win?

A new research project wants to track if our politics is getting ruder or whether it’s the media – stupid! — Tanya Petersen “Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don’t know what to do. Love!” This is how US President, Donald Trump kicked off the new year – a welcome to 2017 tweet with an obvious dig. Was this rude or perhaps just churlish? While a fascinating new research project about to get underway at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne won’t be studying in detail the political musings of Donald Trump it will be trying to assess whether our politics has become ruder over time. And to do this research open data is key. Led by Dr Robert West and graduate student, Seth Vanderwiltthe, the project will start by looking at the US congressional records – an un-sampled record of what people say in a certain environment. Dr West says these are the prime example of open data. They are records that have existed from the beginning, they have always been public and now they are digitally available for researchers. […]