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First Genetic Clue to Common Speech Disorder
piggy submitted, created time 2 weeks 1 day (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)
Blonterstaping. Perplisteronk. Contramponist. People who have trouble remembering and repeating nonsense words like these have a common speech and language disorder called specific language impairment (SLI). Although SLI clearly runs in families, the genes responsible have been hard to pin down. Now, a group has found the first such gene, one that had been previously tied to a language disorder in autism 
Cosmetics companies mince words
Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 month 2 weeks (www.nytimes.com)
The next time you pick up a bottle of shampoo or moisturizer, take a look at the label. Does it claim to contain stem cells or growth hormone? For people who hang out on this website, the thought is probably, "Wait. Laboratories have a hard enough time growing their own stem cells. Who the #@%& is $#%!headed enough to put them in a 'rejuvenating night cream'?!"
It's hype. Of course it's hype
Secret of Newborn's First Words Revealed
kavin submitted, created time 2 months 3 weeks (www.sciencedaily.com)
A new study could explain why "daddy" and "mommy" are often a baby's first words – the human brain may be hard-wired to recognize certain repetition patterns. Using the latest optical brain imaging techniques, University of British Columbia post-doctoral fellow Judit Gervain and a team of researchers from Italy and Chile documented brain activities of twenty-two newborns (two to three days old) when exposed to recordings of made-up words
Sue Wu submitted, created time 7 months 4 weeks (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)
We humans can do all sorts of things other animals can't. A critical connection between two brain areas plays an important role.
Gender Differences In Language Appear Biological
Eric wu submitted, created time 8 months 2 weeks (www.sciencedaily.com)
Although researchers have long agreed that girls have superior language abilities to boys, until now no one has clearly provided a biological basis that may account for their differences.
Why Are Women Better at Language?
Sue Wu submitted, created time 8 months 2 weeks (www.sciam.com)
New research elucidates a biological mechanism for why girls show better language abilities than boys.
Evolution of Counting Is No Simple Operation
Eric wu submitted, created time 10 months 1 week (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)
You may not realize it, but when you tell the grocer you'd like a half-dozen eggs for your family of six, you're using a primitive numbering system.
Now, a study of Pacific Island languages suggests that counting systems can evolve in reverse, becoming more object-specific.
This is a very interesting topic on evolution......
Scientific American deflates misconceptions related to psychopathy
Darkfrog submitted, created time 11 months 2 weeks (www.sciam.com)
This one's not too fresh but it's good. I thought that the word "psychopathy" had been retired by the psychiatric establishment in favor of "sociopathy" (kind of like how "idiot" and "imbecile" used to be official names for people with mental impairments but aren't anymore) but it seems it's still used as a sort of "sociopathy light." It also very intelligibly explains the difference between psychopathy, psychosis and psychotic disorders, which the media in particular tends to confuse.
Aussie boffins translate whale chat
jane2007 submitted, created time 1 year 1 week (www.theregister.co.uk)
Aussie think they've managed to decode a bit of what the humpback whale are saying to each other. The researchers have clearly identified the sounds of a mother issuing a warning to her calf, and of a male trying his luck with the ladies. The team identified plenty of other sounds, some of which seem to have multiple meanings, but found that others, like the warning and the come-on, were much more specific.
addict submitted, created time 1 year 5 months (www.pnas.org)
Throughout history and across cultures, humans have created music using pitch intervals that divide octaves into the 12 tones of the chromatic scale. Why these specific intervals in music are preferred, however, is not known. In the present study, we analyzed a database of individually spoken English vowel phones to examine the hypothesis that musical intervals arise from the relationships of the formants in speech spectra that determine the perceptions of distinct vowels.
Infants from bilingual homes preserve visual language skills longer
Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 year 5 months (www.nature.com)
According to studies out of the Universities of Oxford and of British Columbia, children under the age of six months react to the changes in mouth shape that occur when an adult speaker switches languages. Eight-month-old babies raised in bilingual homes retained this ability longer than their monolingual counterparts.
The study highlights the importance of mouth shape to very young children -- probably an adaptation for learning to talk -- but I don't see why babies born deaf wouldn't have that affinity too. I wonder how we could use this to help deaf children.
Attention, Memory And Language Links In The Human Brain Mapped By Pioneering Study
Cindy submitted, created time 1 year 6 months (www.medicalnewstoday.com)
"This is the chance to study the ultimate form of animal communication -- language," said Thomas A. Christensen of UA's department of speech, language and hearing sciences (SLHS). "Humans have evolved a very sophisticated symbolic form of communication. Language affects how we think, what we believe, how we interact with each other. I'd even go so far as to say that our future as a species depends on understanding how we communicate. But very little is known about what's going on in the brain when we're having a simple conversation."
Does the left inferior longitudinal fasciculus play a role in language? A brain stimulation study
badboy submitted, created time 1 year 8 months (brain.oxfordjournals.org)
Although advances in diffusion tensor imaging have enabled us to better study the anatomy of the inferior longitudinal fasciculus (ILF), its function remains poorly understood.
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