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July 15, 2023

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Babies Talk More Around Human-Made Objects Than Natural Ones

A new study suggests young children are more vocal when interacting with toys and household items, highlighting their importance for developing language ...

Male Babies 'Talk' More in the First Year Than Female Babies Do

年轻的婴儿使许多尖叫,类似元音的声音,growls, and short word-like sounds such as 'ba' or 'aga.' Those precursors to speech or 'protophones' are later replaced with early words and, eventually, whole phrases and sentences. While some infants are naturally more 'talkative' than others, a ...

Chimpanzees Combine Calls to Communicate New Meaning

Similar to humans, chimpanzees combine vocalizations into larger communicatively meaningful structures. UZH researchers suggest that this ability might be evolutionarily more ancient than previously ...

Machine Learning Model Sheds Light on How Brains Recognize Communication Sounds

Scientists studied guinea pigs' communication to understand how the brain recognizes communication sounds regardless of accents and surrounding ...
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Words Matter: How Researchers Can Avoid Stigmatizing Language

New research offers insights into how researchers can use their platforms to help end the use of stigmatizing ...

Going Beyond English Is Critical for Conservation

Research in languages other than English is critically important for biodiversity conservation and is shockingly under-utilized internationally, according to an international research ...

A New and Better Way to Create Word Lists

Word lists are the basis of so much research in so many fields. Researchers have now developed an algorithm that can be applied to different languages and can expand word lists significantly better ...

The Self-Taught Vocabulary of Homesigning Deaf Children Supports Universal Constraints on Language

The thousands of languages spoken throughout the world draw on many of the same fundamental linguistic abilities and reflect universal aspects of how humans categorize events. Some aspects of ...

Daily, Consistent Parental Reading in the First Year of Life Improves Infants' Language Scores

Daily reading improved language development in infants 12 months and younger, according to a recent ...

Toddlers' Attention to 'Motherese' Speech May Be Used to Diagnose Autism

Toddlers' level of attention to 'motherese' speech can be used as a biomarker for autism spectrum disorder (ASD), according to new research. To measure it, scientists developed a new ...

Can a Computer Teach Babies to Count?

最近的一项研究14到19岁之间的81名婴儿蒙特hs old found the same outcome: When these babies watched a video where they were shown pictures of toy cars and toy pigs and listened to someone ...

Altered Speech May Be the First Sign of Parkinson's Disease

Researchers attempted to identify early symptoms of Parkinson's disease using voice data. In their study, the researchers used artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze and assess speech signals, ...

Singing Supports Stroke Rehabilitation

Language function and the psychosocial wellbeing of patients and their families can be promoted with singing-based rehabilitation. Group intervention provides opportunities for peer support while ...

Can the AI Driving ChatGPT Help to Detect Early Signs of Alzheimer's Disease?

The artificial intelligence algorithms behind the chatbot program ChatGPT -- which has drawn attention for its ability to generate humanlike written responses to some of the most creative queries -- ...

Orangutan Communication Sheds Light on Human Speech Origins

Research finds orangutans communicate using a complex repertoire of consonant-like calls, more so than African apes. Previous research has only linked the evolution of human language with the ...

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When Using Virtual Reality as a Teaching Tool, Context and 'Feeling Real' Matter

Psychologists had people learn words from two phonetically similar languages in virtual reality environments. Those who learned each language in its own unique context mixed up fewer words and were ...

The Universal Sound of Swearing Across Languages

Swear words across different languages may tend to lack certain sounds such as l, r, and w, suggests new research. This common pattern in profanity indicates that these sounds, called approximants, ...

Parents Talk More to Toddlers Who Talk Back

Hummus. Chewbacca. Belly button. These are just a few of the thousands of words scientists painstakingly decoded from over 2,100 hours of recorded conversations to determine if the amount of language ...

How the Brain Processes Language

Humans accomplish a phenomenal amount of tasks by combining pieces of information. We perceive objects by combining edges, categorize scenes by combining objects, interpret events by combining ...

Drinking During Pregnancy Changes Baby's Brain Structure

A new MRI study revealed that consumption of alcohol even in low to moderate amounts during pregnancy can change the baby's brain structure and delay brain ...

Genes and Languages Not Always Together

Does the history of our languages match the history of our genes? A team of scientists has revealed a large number of matches -- but also widespread mismatches in around 20 percent of cases, ...

Not Every Reader's Struggle Is the Same

Neuroscientists find that brain signatures of reading difficulties in students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds are, on average, different from those of students from higher socioeconomic ...

Smell Words Differ Primarily in Terms of Pleasantness and Edibility

Most languages lack a specialized vocabulary to describe smell experiences. People instead use words from other domains, such as 'heavy', 'good' or 'fruity', when ...

Our Brains 'Time-Stamp' Sounds to Process the Words We Hear

Our brains 'time-stamp' the order of incoming sounds, allowing us to correctly process the words that we hear, shows a new study by a team of psychology and linguistics researchers. Its ...

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