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.
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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.
Zooming out during your video calls?
Videoconferencing is often experienced as more exhausting than live meetings, but why is that?
How gender-neutral is language?
Research shows that with supposedly neutral terms we still automatically think of men.
Your second language doesn’t mind some champagne
It appears that drinking a glass of champagne does not impair your pronunciation in a second language, and sometimes even improves it.