Psycholinguistics is a field at the intersection of psychology and linguistics, and one of its recent discoveries is that the languages we speak influence our eye movements. For example, English ...

Another entry for the ever-expanding category of "the brain is a very strange place" posts. A paper in PNAS suggests that what we call a color may influence how we perceive it. The image below shows a ...

You will never forget your mother tongue, a new study found. Scientists have found that even a small exposure to a first language influences the way the brain will interpret and process sounds. In a ...

Among the many ways you can define language differences, one of the easiest is by the use of tone. For some languages (like English), the differences between words that are pronounced similarly has to ...

More and more, people are using internet forums as first place to look for information on health issues. However, the scientific medical information being provided there is often so complex that ...

Dr. Robert Vann, Western Michigan University full professor of Spanish linguistics, has had a longtime interest in the Catalan language and in the people that live in Catalonia, an autonomous ...

How do you use body language to influence someone? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Answer ...

Morocco is, in fact, an Arab country. While this assertion may appear self-evident, it has become a subject of debate ...

Amanda Seidl (standing), a Purdue associate professor of speech, language and hearing sciences who studies language acquisition, found that touch can influence how infants learn language. Her research ...

Most of us don’t have the luxury to stop and reflect very often, especially about design language theory. In this writer’s case that is probably just as well, as my theoretical speculations tend to ...