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Figures of speech -- understanding idioms requires both sides of the brain
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 14, 2009 |
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Is it better to treat someone with kid gloves or to treat them carefully? Researchers in Italy have investigated how the brain recognises that the first phrase means the same as the second. Publishing in the ...
How do we understand written language?
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 16, 2009 |
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How do we know that certain combinations of letters have certain meanings? Reading and spelling are complex processes, involving several different areas of the brain, but researchers from Johns Hopkins University in the ...
Playing, and even watching, sports improves brain function
Sep 01, 2008 |
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Being an athlete or merely a fan improves language skills when it comes to discussing their sport because parts of the brain usually involved in playing sports are instead used to understand sport language, ...
Breathing second life into language teaching
Oct 09, 2008 |
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An international team has developed a wireless virtual reality environment that can help promote language learning and let students practice. The researchers have demonstrated their Collaborative Virtual Reality Environment ...
Study finds that children can learn a second language in preschool
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 10, 2009 |
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Interim results from an international research project which looks at bilingual education reveal that children can learn a second language as early as preschool.
Language support in schools vital for children with autism
Nov 09, 2009 |
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Teachers and parents must be vigilant in observing difficulties with language comprehension, reading and spelling in children and young people with autism, Asperger's syndrome and ADHD.
What is unique in the brain of an Arabic speaker?
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Literary Arabic is expressed in the brain of an Arabic speaker as a second language and not as a native language. This has been shown in a new study by Dr. Raphiq Ibrahim of the Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center for the ...
Can networked human computation solve computer language comprehension?
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 26, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of Essex hope to answer this question by getting more volunteers to take part in their online game, Phrase Detectives.
Medical interpreters break language barriers in health care
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Language barriers in health care settings can decrease access to quality care and diminish comprehension for limited English proficient patients (LEP). These barriers compromise quality of care, and increase ...
Psychologist identifies area of brain key to choosing words
Dec 24, 2008 |
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New research by a Rice University psychologist clearly identifies the parts of the brain involved in the process of choosing appropriate words during speech.
Sign language puzzle solved
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have known for 40 years that even though it takes longer to use sign language to sign individual words, sentences can be signed, on average, in the same time it takes to say them, ...
Neuroscientists map intelligence in the brain
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Neuroscientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have conducted the most comprehensive brain mapping to date of the cognitive abilities measured by the Wechsler Adult Intelligence ...
IBM Technology Improves English Speaking Skills
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 26, 2006 |
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Researchers at IBM's India Research Laboratory today announced that they have developed a Web-based, interactive language technology to help people who speak English as a second language improve their speaking skills.
Impairments in language development can be detected in infants as young as 3 months
Apr 10, 2008 |
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Uncover how the brains of infants distinguish differences in sounds and it may become possible to correct language problems even before children start to speak, sparing them the difficulties that come from struggling with ...
Google adds translation to main search engine
Dec 04, 2009 |
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Google has began weaving an automated language translation feature into its universal search service.
