News tagged with vocabulary
Three of a kind: Revealing language’s universal essence
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- On the surface, English, Japanese, and Kinande, a member of the Bantu family of languages spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have little in common. It is not just that the vocabularies ...
The Role of Sleep in Learning New Words
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study has demonstrated for the first time the importance of sleep in learning new words, and has shown the process has fast and slow components. The slow component is associated with ...
How words shape the world
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 08, 2009 |
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Our minds might be able to find the right word quicker than Google and yet we rarely pause to think about how language shapes everything we do.
Cognitive decline begins in late 20s, study suggests
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 20, 2009 |
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A new study indicates that some aspects of peoples' cognitive skills - such as the ability to make rapid comparisons, remember unrelated information and detect relationships - peak at about the age of 22, and then begin a ...
TV viewing before the age of 2 has no cognitive benefit, study finds
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 02, 2009 |
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A longitudinal study of infants from birth to age 3 showed TV viewing before the age of 2 does not improve a child's language and visual motor skills, according to research conducted at Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard ...
Children's early gesture have important link to school preparedness (Video)
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 12, 2009 |
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Children who convey more meanings with gestures at age 14 months have much larger vocabularies at 54 months than children who convey fewer meanings and are accordingly better prepared for school, according ...
Heart disease is linked to worse mental processes that, in turn, predict the onset of dementia
Jul 23, 2008 |
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Coronary heart disease is associated with a worse performance in mental processes such as reasoning, vocabulary and verbal fluency, according to a study of 5837 middle-aged Whitehall civil servants. The study also found that ...
