We all have prejudices, whether or not we admit it. Psychologists tend to think of them as fundamentally human flaws—blinders resulting from thousands of years of culture and evolution. Receive emails ...

According to Savani, we can catch glimpses of our implicit aptitudes when learning new languages. For example, if from mere exposure, you are picking up the nuances of various dialects and accents of ...

This experimental study examines the extent to which 60 adult Japanese ESL learners were able to acquire a rule regulating the argument structure frames of novel verbs of English after exposure to ...

“Cancel culture” is a phrase that’s been thrown around both often and haphazardly over the last year or so. It started as a favored term of retaliation for religious or conservative leaning groups ...

People who had cognitive functions depleted by noninvasive brain stimulation or a mentally demanding task could subconsciously recognize individual words in a made-up language more easily than ...

Aphasia affects the speech, language processing and reading skills of about 2 million people in the United States, according to the American Stroke Association. The communication disorder occurs most ...

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It’s rare that a computer science lab brings us a scenario worthy of a spy novel, but that’s what happened earlier this month when Hristo Bojinov, a researcher at Stanford University, divulged his ...

Carnegie Mellon University scientists have discovered a crucial difference in the way learning occurs in the brains of adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Published in NeuroImage, Sarah ...

One of our lifelong love affairs as humans is learning. Even the “pain” which, as per Aristotle’s observations, accompanies learning doesn’t deter us. In the name of growing our minds and skillsets, ...