Language Acquisition News

Posted October 7, 2008:

• Girls Have Harder Time Than Boys Adjusting In Language-learning Environment, Study Finds

Posted October 6, 2008:

• Sound Is An Integral Part Of Products, Industrial Designer Says

Posted October 3, 2008:

• See What I See – Machines With Mental Muscle

Posted October 2, 2008:

• Eureka! How Distractions Facilitate Creative Problem-solving

Posted September 29, 2008:

• New Tool To Assess Speech Development In Infants, Toddlers With Hearing Impairments

Posted September 28, 2008:

• Most Elementary Schools In California Will Fail To Meet Proficiency Requirements By 2014, Study Shows

Posted September 27, 2008:

• Learning From Mistakes Only Works After Age 12, Study Suggests

Posted September 24, 2008:

• Un-total Recall: Amnesics Remember Grammar, But Not Meaning Of New Sentences

Posted September 22, 2008:

• Revealing The Regulating Mechanism Behind Signal Transduction In The Brain

Posted September 16, 2008:

• Prosthetic Ears Appear To Improve Hearing And Speech Recognition In Noisy Environments

Posted September 15, 2008:

• Cold And Lonely: Does Social Exclusion Literally Feel Cold?
• Scientists Watch As Listener's Brain Predicts Speaker's Words
• The Language Of Luxury: Advertisers' Language Choices Evoke Different Reactions

Posted September 11, 2008:

• Researcher Begins Study Of Osama Bin Laden Audio Tapes

Posted September 10, 2008:

• Bilingual Children More Likely To Stutter

Posted September 9, 2008:

• Dogs And Cats Can Live In Perfect Harmony In The Home, If Introduced The Right Way

Posted September 8, 2008:

• Txt Crimes, Sex Crimes And Murder: The Science Of Forensic Linguistics

Posted September 6, 2008:

• Chandelier Cells Unveil Human Cognition
• Action As A Goal May Be Too Broad, New Research Suggests

Posted September 3, 2008:

• Playing, And Even Watching, Sports Improves Brain Function
• Zen Training Speeds The Mind's Return After Distraction, Brain Scans Reveal
• Brain Imaging Links Chronic Insomnia To Reversible Cognitive Deficits Without Changes In Behavior

Posted September 2, 2008:

• Bonobos May Have Greater Linguistic Skills Than Previously Thought

Posted August 31, 2008:

• Memory Trick Shows Brain Organization

Posted August 28, 2008:

• Sticks And Stones: A New Study On Social And Physical Pain
• Unusual Ultrasonic Vocalization Patterns In Mice May Be Useful For Modeling Autism

Posted August 27, 2008:

• How The Brain Compensates For Vision Loss Shows Much More Versatility Than Previously Recognized
• Secret Of Newborn's First Words Revealed

Posted August 26, 2008:

• 'Perfect Pitch' In Humans Far More Prevalent Than Expected

Posted August 25, 2008:

• 'Can You See Me Now?' Sign Language Over Cell Phones Comes To United States

Posted August 21, 2008:

• Relearning Process Not Always A 'Free Lunch'

Posted August 19, 2008:

• Aboriginal Kids Can Count Without Numbers

Posted August 17, 2008:

• Young Children's 'Theory Of Mind' Linked To Subsequent Metacognitive Development In Adolescence

Posted August 13, 2008:

• Simply Listening To Music Affects One’s Musicality

Posted August 9, 2008:

• Tuning In To A New Language On The Fly: Effects Of Context And Seasonality On Songbird Brain

Posted August 7, 2008:

• Remedial Instruction Rewires Dyslexic Brains, Provides Lasting Results, Study Shows
• Neurobiologists Discover Individuals Who 'Hear' Movement

Posted August 5, 2008:

• Schizophrenia: Costly By-product Of Human Brain Evolution?

Posted August 4, 2008:

• Schizophrenia Researchers Welcome New Blood

Posted July 31, 2008:

• The Power Of Peter Piper: How Alliteration Enhances Poetry, Prose, And Memory

Posted July 29, 2008:

• Study Examines Prevalence Of Hearing Loss In The US

Posted July 22, 2008:

• Intelligent Computational Model Of The Descriptive Grammar Of The Spanish Language

Posted July 21, 2008:

• Rapid Alzheimer's Improvement After New Immune-based Treatment

Posted July 20, 2008:

• Nature-Nurture Gene Link Sheds New Light On Autism

Posted July 15, 2008:

• Language Without Numbers: Amazonian Tribe Has No Word To Express 'One,' Other Numbers
• Immigrant Youths Explore Identity In High School

Posted July 14, 2008:

• New Hearing Aid Technology Passes The Restaurant Noise Test

Posted July 10, 2008:

• Why Musicians Make Us Weep And Computers Don't

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