language
Heat Waves Reduce Politicians’ Speech Complexity
Health
Summary: High temperatures lead to simpler language in parliamentary speeches. Analyzing seven million speeches from 28,000 politicians, researchers discovered that heat negatively ...
Study Reveals Shifting Language in Mental Health Over 79 Years
Health
Summary: A study of 340,000 texts over 79 years found a shift from terms like “disease” and “disturbance” to “mental health” and ...
How ‘Not’ Changes Everything: Brain Interprets Negated Adjectives
Health
Summary: Researchers found that negating adjectives with “not” affects how our brains interpret their meaning, mitigating rather than inverting their definition. In ...
Stuttering Linked to Specific Brain Network
Health
Summary: A new study has identified a common brain network responsible for stuttering, regardless of its cause. Researchers found that strokes causing ...
Training Enhances Word Recognition for Efficient Reading
Science
Summary: Researchers developed a training method that enhances the recognition of known versus unknown words, thereby improving reading efficiency. Their study employs ...
Prague medics blame ‘language barrier’ after four-months pregnant woman supposed to be having a check-up miscarries
World
The pregnant woman was subjected to a curettage, a type of uterus surgery Staff responsible at the Bulovka University Hospital have been ...
Babies Predict Actions Based on Language Community
Health
Summary: Six-month-old infants can predict actions of individuals who speak their mother tongue, but not of those speaking a foreign language. This ...
Language Developed 8 Times Earlier Than Previously Thought, Says New Book
Science
A landmark new book that has researched evolutionary and linguistic development of prehistoric humans, has found that language might be older almost ...
AI Breakthrough: Machines Mastering Human Tasks Through Language
Science
Summary: Researchers made a significant leap in artificial intelligence by developing an AI capable of learning new tasks from verbal or written ...
Brain Abnormalities in Children with Developmental Language Disorder
Health
Summary: Researchers have discovered that the anterior neostriatum, a part of the brain linked with movement, shows abnormalities in children with developmental ...
