Modified Mirror Neuron System can alter visual perception
A team from Arizona State University has found that our mirror neuron system can be modified by language and that, in turn, can change visual perception....
read moreGender of speaker affects how the listener processing language...
Scientists from the University of Kansas found that the gender of the person speaking affected how quickly the listener identified the words grammatically....
read moreTeachers 3.5 times more likely to develop a speech and language disorder...
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic have been a very surprising discovery: People with speech and language disorders are 3.5 times more likely to be teachers than patients with Alzheimer’s dementia....
read moreLearning dialects activates different brain hemispheres
A new study found that the pitch-accent in words pronounced in standard Japanese lights up different areas of the brain, depending on what dialect the listener speaks....
read moreHow we keep a beat determines how effectively we respond to speech...
Research out of Northwestern University indicates that musical training could improve the brain’s response to language. In a recent study, they found that when participants showed a higher accuracy of tapping to a beat, their brains responded more consistently...
read moreDisproving the myth of right-brained and left-brained
New research says there is no such thing as “right-brained” and “left-brained” personality traits. Although it’s true that certain functions come from one side of the brain or the other (language is in the left, attention on the right,...
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