Power rewires grammar: feeling powerful weakens syntactic priming in dialogue
A new study in Current Psychology shows that people primed with high power exhibit weaker syntactic priming effects than those ...
Tag: psycholinguistics
Click Languages Sharpen the Ear for Hidden Conversational Sounds, Study Finds
A new cross-linguistic study shows that speakers of click languages such as Zulu and Xhosa detect paralinguistic click sounds in ...
Why We Talk Down to Older Adults: The Hidden Psychology That Keeps Patronizing Language Alive
A new theoretical analysis argues that patronizing language toward older adults persists not because people fail to notice it, but ...
Familiarity Beats Transparency: How Adults With Low Literacy Really Understand Idioms in Easy German
A four-experiment study of adult low-literacy readers in Germany finds that idiom comprehension in Easy German is driven by familiarity ...
Hidden Cognate Traps May Be Skewing Bilingual Word Recognition Studies
A new tutorial in Behavior Research Methods provides a seven-step automated procedure for detecting hidden cognate confounds in second-language priming ...
Does the Brain Really Predict What You Read? New Study Puts Predictive Coding to the Test
A new analysis in Frontiers in Cognition evaluates whether predictive coding, a leading theory of perception, can explain how the ...
Bilingual Brains Share Word Forms: Five-Day Study Reveals How Cognates Transfer Across Languages
A five-day experiment with Dutch-English bilinguals shows that cognate words transfer practice benefits across languages far more strongly than translation ...
How Easily a Word Sparks a Mental Image Shapes How Bilinguals Switch Languages
A new study of Chinese–English bilinguals shows that how easily a word evokes a mental image determines whether language switching ...
Metaphors on the Move: AI Tracks How 19th-Century Poetry Reads in the Internet Age
Using temporally aligned word embeddings trained on 124 million tokens, researchers tracked how 515 Italian literary metaphors changed in processing ...
A Tiny Turkish Particle Reveals How Preschoolers Master Focus in Language
A study of Turkish-speaking preschoolers shows that moving a single grammatical question particle to mark focus on a sentence subject ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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