Absence of linguistic skills could hamper thinking ability
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Not being part of a culture with a highly developed language, could limit your thoughts, at least as far as numbers are concerned, reveals a new study conducted by a psychologist at the Columbia University in New York.
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Can computers get along fine without writers? Word is they just might. [Missing Link]
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It's no laughing matter: a new study suggests older adults have a harder time getting jokes as they age. The research indicates that because older adults may have greater difficulty with cognitive flexibility, abstract reasoning and short-term memory, they also have greater difficulty with tests of humor comprehension.
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NEW YORK  - The length of children's fingers may hint at their natural abilities in math and language, a new study suggests.
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A new psychology study at Washington University was no laughing matter: It found that older adults may have a harder time getting jokes because of an age-related decline in certain memory and reasoning abilities.
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Children's brains are hard-wired to learn languages and, in some cases, to improve upon them. That's the conclusion of a new study that followed several generations of deaf Nicaraguan children as they created their own sign language and then continuously tinkered it with each new group of signers.
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Volunteers show marked improvement in verbal skills after a research team runs a weak current through their foreheads. The researchers say it could lead to innovative therapies for patients with brain injuries. By Amit Asaravala.
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Thousands of brain-damaged people who are treated as if they are almost completely unaware may register what is going on around them but be unable to respond, a study suggests.
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may help people maintain their cognitive skills as they age, a 10-year Dutch study found. The study, published in Tuesday&#39;s Neurology, reviewed the data of 295 men, born between 1900 and 1920, from Finland, Italy and Netherlands.
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A new study challenges the conventional wisdom that women talk more than men do.
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NEW YORK  - Screening toddlers for problems in their language development may help reduce their need for special education once they start school, a new study suggests.
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Science & environment: Political differences might be explained by a fundamental variation in how our brains are 'wired' to process information, study says.
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A new study questions the idea that the female brain evolved to be talkative and the male brain evolved to be reticent.
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Brain researchers have a new argument against executing teenagers: they are not yet wired for adult decision making.
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Finding the right words for tricky conversations with children.
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Autistic boys with language impairment have brain structures different from autistic boys with normal language abilities, researchers have found.
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Manchester scientists pinpoint a part of the brain they think plays a major role in understanding concepts.