ChatGPT: A chatbot on another level
A conversation with ChatGPT is often very similar to a conversation with a human… but one with an insane amount of knowledge. Convenient, right?
Language
Language
Repeat it until you get it
As grown-ups, we easily tend to get bored when falling into a form of routine. Children, on the contrary, are very much into repetitions. This developmental difference is at the core of the way we process and interpret the world with experience.
Quite complicated: How do you hold a conversation while enjoying a drink?
You cannot talk with your mouth full, so how do people combine talking and drinking?
Hand and mouth: a special alliance
Your hands and mouth are intrinsically connected to each other. This relationship presumably developed through eating behavior and, nowadays, it also plays an important role in language.
Do you speak body motion ?
In Canada, dancers and researchers collaborated to develop dance as the universal body language for interacting with people suffering from dementia.
What you can learn from the game Semantle about how computers understand language
Better than Wordle: from my new favorite language game Semantle we can learn how computers understand the meaning of words based on context.
How to say autism?
Whether it is preferred to say that someone is a ‘person with autism’ or an ‘autistic person’ is controversial. Even among the people concerned, very different opinions coexist. How do we decide what the right naming is and why?
Why dogs are so special
Research reveals the unique capability of dogs to understand humans. One look at our face while carefully listening to our voice and they can make sense of our emotional state.
How to respond lightning-fast during a conversation
Even though preparing words and sentences takes a long time, people usually respond very quickly in conversation. How is that possible?
This is aphasa.. afasi.. aphasia
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you wanted to say something, but simply could not find the words you were looking for? That’s what people with aphasia experience all the time.