News tagged with language ability


Educate yourself to boost achievement in kids

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

With school days just around the corner, a University of Michigan researcher has some advice for parents who want to increase their children's academic success.


Language skills in your twenties may predict risk of dementia decades later

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jul 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1

People who have superior language skills early in life may be less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease decades later, despite having the hallmark signs of the disease, according to research published in the July 9, 2009, ...





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New study may revolutionize language learning

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 27, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (20) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- The teaching of languages could be revolutionised following ground-breaking research by Victoria University, New Zealand, PhD graduate Paul Sulzberger. Dr Sulzberger has found that the best way to learn a ...


Use it or lose it? Study suggests the brain can remember a 'forgotten' language

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 1

Many of us learn a foreign language when we are young, but in some cases, exposure to that language is brief and we never get to hear or practice it subsequently. Our subjective impression is often that the neglected language ...


Computerized writing aids make writing easier for persons with aphasia

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

It is possible to improve writing skills for those with aphasia with the aid of computerised writing aids. This is the conclusion of a doctoral thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.


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Babble Of Baby Reveals Language Skills

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Children have a remarkable ability to learn new languages. As little as five hours of exposure to a second language is enough to help infants incorporate characteristics of that language into their babbling ...


Unlocking the brain after stroke

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 23, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

University of Queensland research is set to unlock the regions of the brain central to successful language treatment following a stroke.


Researchers report gene associated with language, speech and reading disorders

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new candidate gene for Specific Language Impairment has been identified by a research team directed by Mabel Rice at the University of Kansas, in collaboration with Shelley Smith, University of Nebraska Medical Center, ...


Expressing comparisons is possible even without language, researchers find

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 30, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Making comparisons between objects, like comparing a tiger to a cat, is elemental in the development of a child’s ability to grasp the concept of categories.


Parents key in new measure to evaluate language in children with autism

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new parent questionnaire, developed at the University of Waterloo, will help health practitioners to more accurately gauge the acquisition of language skills in children with autism.


Learning a second language is good childhood mind medicine, studies find

Learning a second language is good childhood mind medicine, studies find

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Teaching young children how to speak a second language is good for their minds, report two Cornell linguistic researchers.


Athletes' and spectators' brains light up when talking sports

Playing, and even watching, sports improves brain function

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 01, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (16) | comments 0

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, ...



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