Tag: language

Did the boy bite the cat, or was it the other way around?  Credit: Andrey Vyshedskiy Did the boy bite ...

Humor has a large role to play when it comes to engaging students in a classroom environment. By facilitating student ...

Speaking the same language as their physician can make for healthier patients, new research using ICES data confirms. Frail, older ...

Neuroscientists have gained new insight into how our brain evolved into a language-ready brain. Compared to chimpanzee brains, the pattern ...

Throughout the twentieth century, being “punch drunk” was a commonly encountered condition—one denoted by an equally pervasive term. Similar turns ...

Obesity affects millions of individuals worldwide and is associated with a significantly increased risk for cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. A ...

Fever, cough, sore throat – symptoms in the spotlight in the era of COVID-19 – are just some of the ...

Researchers who analyzed language related to depression on social media during the pandemic say the data suggest people learned to ...

Millions of school children across large parts of Sub-Saharan Africa are sat silently in classrooms, struggling to follow lessons, and ...

Variability is crucially important for learning new skills. Consider learning how to serve in tennis. Should you always practice serving ...

Content and trigger warnings from 32 countries and 10 different sectors analyzed to produce a new framework of classification by ...

Medical language that casts doubt, belittles, or blames patients for their health problems continues to be commonly used in everyday ...

Word comprehension is lost for some patients, others lose grammar  Most extensive study to date on PPA Disease is often ...

For most of us, when we make major career choices, we tend to lean into what we’re good at. According ...

New research has found that people with mild cognitive impairment may not inevitably develop dementia and, in fact, having higher ...

Tweets from U.S. journalists on the 2016 campaign trail used more emotive and informal language than news articles and broadcasts, ...

FAIRNESS and inclusivity throughout Vietnam’s urban and rural regions in terms of their English language assessment practices is being brought ...

(Jena, Germany) Almost every scientific subject area uses its own specific vocabulary. It is obvious that this can lead to ...

When humans interact with a humanoid robot, they subconsciously mimic and synchronize with its body language - just as with ...

When human beings speak, different areas of their brain must be activated. However, the function of these regions can be ...