Save
Email
Print
Share
RSSBrowse News Stories
41 to 50 of 1,552 stories
view headlines only
-
Philadelphia Shifts to a Northern Accent
March 26, 2013 — The traditional Southern inflections associated with the Philadelphia regional accent are increasingly being displaced by Northern influences. A recent study documents this trend through an analysis ... > full story -
Language Acquisition
Child Development
Intelligence
Child Psychology
Social Psychology
Educational Psychology
Language Acquisition: Nouns Before Verbs?
March 25, 2013 — Researchers are digging deeper into whether infants' ability to learn new words is shaped by the language being acquired. A new study cites a promising new research agenda aimed at bringing ... > full story -
Language Acquisition
Child Development
Anger Management
Racial Issues
Disorders and Syndromes
Child Psychology
Fear Factor Increases, Emotions Decrease in Books Written in Last 50 Years
March 20, 2013 — The use of words with emotional content in books has steadily decreased throughout the last century, according to new research. The emotional content of published English has been steadily decreasing ... > full story -
Robot-Delivered Speech and Physical Therapy a Success
March 20, 2013 — In one of the earliest experiments using a humanoid robot to deliver speech and physical therapy to a stroke patient, researchers saw notable speech and physical therapy gains and significant ... > full story -
'Brain Waves' Challenge Area-Specific View of Brain Activity
March 20, 2013 — Our understanding of brain activity has traditionally been linked to brain areas – when we speak, the speech area of the brain is active. New research shows that this view may be overly rigid. ... > full story -
Perception
Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence
Communications
Language Acquisition
Information Technology
Face of the Future Rears Its Head: Digital Talking Head Expresses Human Emotions on Demand
March 19, 2013 — Meet Zoe: a digital talking head which can express human emotions on demand with "unprecedented realism" and could herald a new era of human-computer ... > full story -
Infant's Health
Child Development
Child Psychology
Children's Health
Down Syndrome
Pregnancy and Childbirth
Similar Neuro Outcomes in Preterm Infants With Low-Grade Brain Bleeding as Infants With No Bleeding
March 18, 2013 — A new study suggests that preterm infants with a low-grade bleeding in the brain may have similar neurodevelopmental outcomes as infants with no ... > full story -
How Can We Stlil Raed Words Wehn Teh Lettres Are Jmbuled Up?
March 15, 2013 — Researchers have taken an important step towards understanding how the human brain 'decodes' letters on a page to read a word. The work will help psychologists unravel the subtle thinking ... > full story -
New Research Discovers the Emergence of Twitter 'Tribes'
March 14, 2013 — Linguists have found evidence of how people form into tribe-like communities on social network sites such as ... > full story -
Garbled Text Messages May Be the Only Symptoms of Stroke
March 14, 2013 — Difficulty or inability to write a coherent text message, even in patients who have no problem speaking, may become a "vital" tool in diagnosing a type of crippling stroke, according to new ... > full story
Search ScienceDaily
Number of stories in archives: 137,158
more 
