Hand gestures point towards the origins of language
Communication gestures used by humans and our primate relatives are providing clues about how our species' ability to use spoken language evolved.
Communication gestures used by humans and our primate relatives are providing clues about how our species' ability to use spoken language evolved.
Evolution
Aug 20, 2019
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For a robot to be able to "learn" sign language, it is necessary to combine different areas of engineering such as artificial intelligence, neural networks and artificial vision, as well as underactuated robotic hands. "One ...
Robotics
Jul 8, 2019
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If you hear someone say "John and Mary kiss," you'd likely imagine a single symmetrical action. But hear them say "John and Mary kiss each other," and you may construe an entirely different picture—one in which the parties ...
Social Sciences
May 30, 2019
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Is English "weird"? Many of us might feel this is true when we're trying to explain the complex spelling rules of the language, or the meanings of idioms such as "it's raining cats and dogs" to someone who is learning English. ...
Social Sciences
Apr 12, 2019
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Connie de Vos was sitting on her hands. It was 2006, her first stay in the Balinese village of Bengkala, and visitors had come every night to her house, sitting on the floor of the front patio, eating fruit- or durian-flavoured ...
Social Sciences
Feb 26, 2019
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Mobile phones are increasingly more accessible by people with disabilities, but significant gaps remain, according to a newly published study from the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center for Wireless Inclusive Technologies ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Feb 13, 2019
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At least 230 new emoji, when different skin tones and genders are included, are due to be released this year. That's a leap on 2018 when only 157 emoji were added to the Unicode Standard – the code used to support emoji ...
Internet
Feb 8, 2019
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Sign languages can help reveal hidden aspects of the logical structure of spoken language, but they also highlight its limitations because speech lacks the rich iconic resources that sign language uses on top of its sophisticated ...
Social Sciences
Nov 6, 2018
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Koko the gorilla, whose remarkable sign-language ability and motherly attachment to pet cats helped change the world's views about the intelligence of animals and their capacity for empathy, has died at 46.
Plants & Animals
Jun 21, 2018
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During the International Year of Astronomy in 2009, an encyclopedic dictionary of astronomy for French Sign Language, entitled Hands in the Stars, was published under the direction of Dominique Proust. This dictionary contains ...
Other
Dec 7, 2017
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