A recent study by Ohio State University (USA) reveals that human beings always perceive the same colors, regardless of the place and culture in which we were born, and that we even name and classify them in a similar way. Across cultures, researchers have observed a tendency to classify hundreds of various color hues into just eight categories: red, green, yellow or orange, blue, purple, brown, pink, and blue-green.
Almost everyone thinks talking alone is crazy, and when we do we make sure that no one is listening. However, it seems that this habit stimulates the brain and helps it to better concentrate on the task or problem to be solved, according to a study recently published in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Pyschology.
On the occasion of the WWW Internet World Congress that is held in the French city of Lion between April 16 and 20, Fundeu (Foundation of urgent Spanish) has selected a list of ten foreign words widely used in this field that have alternatives in Spanish, as well as some terms that raise doubts regarding its writing.
The answer is no, but almost. A team of researchers from the University of Marseille (France) has succeeded in getting a group of baboons to recognize English words with astonishing accuracy. The results reveal that visual word recognition can be learned without the need to know spoken language.
According to Fundéu (Foundation for Urgent Spanish), the surname Parkinson is written with a capital initial if it is preceded by disease (Parkinson's disease) and with a lower case when it is alone, used as a common name (suffers from Parkinson's). As for the expression World Parkinson's Day (which is celebrated every April 11), it is written with capital initials.
Joan Lee, from the University of Calgary (USA), has carried out a study for her thesis that reveals that people who send more text messages are more reluctant to accept new words. However, their experiments show those who consume more information in traditional media such as books, magazines and newspapers are more accepting of new words and even better able to understand their meaning.?
Neuroscientists may one day be able to listen to the constant internal monologues that take place in our minds, or to hear the imaginary speech of a patient with a stroke or an inability to speak, according to a team of researchers from the University of California. (USA).
A study carried out by experts in applied mathematics from the University of Vermont published in the magazine PLoS ONE has analyzed the most used words in the New York Times newspaper, the microblogging platform Twitter, the books archived in Google Books (with some titles dating 1520) and the lyrics of the songs that have been heard the most in the last half century. And, after selecting the 5,000 most frequent terms in each case, they have come to the conclusion that positive words that refer to happiness predominate in the vocabulary compared to negative and / or sad words.
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.
