Scientists at the University of Sussex (UK) have shown that chimpanzees and gorillas are, like humans, mostly right-handed. The finding disproves the idea that right-sided dominance in humans (90% of individuals are right-handed) is a unique trait of the species associated with language development.
When doing calculations and mathematical operations, bilinguals always use the language in which they learned to do math, according to a study published in the journal Psychological Science. The researchers, from the Basque Center for Cognition, Brain and Language, worked with 20 bilingual people.
An emoticon is a sequence of keyboard characters used to accentuate an emotion. They are placed after the last punctuation mark in a sentence, and are usually read sideways and counterclockwise. Among the basics stand out the smile :-), the wink ;-), the amazement: -or, the sarcasm: - [or the sadness :-(. They are also used to send kisses: - *.
The Fundación del Español Urgente (Fundéu) recommends using the verb to land and the noun landing to talk about the action of landing a ship on Mars, instead of landing and landing. Although these are well-formed words in Spanish, their use is discouraged because landing already refers to that action.
According to the American linguist Deborah Tannen, girls tend to speak at length on the same topic, while boys jump from one topic to another, and are able to address more than fifty different topics in the time that their peers dedicate to just one . On the other hand, Tannen distinguishes between affective conversations, which emphasize showing similarities and sharing experiences, more frequent between women, and informative conversations, focused on telling stories and typical of the male gender.
By analyzing the path that the eyes describe when looking, it is possible to predict what a person is going to say, according to research by the University of Edinburgh (Scotland). According to Moreno Coco, co-author of the work, there is a direct relationship between the speech and the previous eye movement because it is necessary to "see what is going to be described."
Is just 140 characters enough to identify a psychopath? This is the question launched by the Online Privacy Foundation, which has launched a social experiment to find a connection between the content of tweets and psychopathy. To carry it out, they have teamed up with Kaggle, an original company specialized in data mining that works under the motto "we turn data science into sport".
Researchers at the University of Hertfordshire have developed a humanoid robot that is capable of learning to speak like a child between 6 and 14 months after engaging in a few minutes of "conversation" with humans. The work, echoed by the SINC agency, has been published this week in PLoS ONE magazine.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
