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Writing Tip: Better “You” Than “I”
You are a sick man…you are a spiteful man. That’s not the first line of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Notes From Underground; Dostoyevsky used the first person: “I am a sick man…I am a spiteful man.” Do
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When Making Meaning of the World, the Brain is a Multi-tasker
How does the brain confer meaning on the things we perceive in the world? “Many of us favor the theory that, whether it comes in through the eyes or ears, through reading [or other stimuli]
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Infants May Use Lip Reading to Learn Language
ABC News: Infants learn language not only through sound, but also through lip reading, according to a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers say the new findings
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The Language of Lies
The Huffington Post: It turns out to be difficult to tell when other people are lying. There are lots of cues that we believe will tip us off to whether someone is telling the truth.
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Il linguaggio dell’amore esiste
La Stampa: Il linguaggio dell’amore esiste, eccome. E non solo esiste, ma sembra essere persino un elemento predittivo di un rapporto felice e duraturo, affermano alcuni psicologi. A quanto pare sia gli uomini che le
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Michael C. Frank
Stanford University, USA http://langcog.stanford.edu What does your research focus on? I study the intersection between social cognition and language acquisition: I try to understand how the social context of interactions between children and caregivers provides
