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How Do Words, such as Yes and No, Change Our Brains and Lives? | SharpBrains

How Do Words, such as Yes and No, Change Our Brains and Lives? | SharpBrains | Science News | Scoop.it

By using lan­guage to help us reflect on pos­i­tive ideas and emo­tions, we can enhance our over­all well being, and we improve the func­tion­ing of our brain.

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Baboons can learn to recognize words

Baboons can learn to recognize words | Science News | Scoop.it
Monkeys' ability suggests that reading taps into general systems of pattern recognition.
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Google Books Helps Reveal How Words Come and Go

Google Books Helps Reveal How Words Come and Go | Science News | Scoop.it
With the scanned sortiment of scanned google books, "culturomics" managed to gain new mathematical knowledge about the history of words:
"War has a dramatic effect on the birth and death of words. The figure above depicts variability in how fast words change in popularity: a high variability over a short period of time is likely due to an influx of new words. Comparing the English and Spanish language corpuses during WWII, the researchers found English shakes up while Spanish remains relatively stable. The pattern reflects the relative importance of the war in English and Spanish-speaking parts of the world. Analyses of English through the 19th and 20th centuries also revealed high variability during the Civil War, WWI, and the Vietnam War."
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Babies track word patterns long before word-learning starts

Babies track word patterns long before word-learning starts | Science News | Scoop.it
During the first year of life, when babies spend so much time listening to language, they're actually tracking word patterns that will support their process of word- learning that occurs between the ages of about 18 months and two years.
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Positive words: the glue to social interaction

Positive words: the glue to social interaction | Science News | Scoop.it

Scientists at ETH Zurich have studied the use of language, finding that words with a positive emotional content are more frequently used in written communication. This result supports the theory that social relations are enhanced by a positive bias in human communication.

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Your Words Determine your Perspective

Your Words Determine your Perspective | Science News | Scoop.it
Change your words to get a different perspective on your problem. The words you use will determine your thoughts.
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GraphWords.com - Visualize words!

Graph Words is a free visualization tool to explore English dictionary and thesaurus, helps you to search the meaning of words and other associated words.

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Lexical-Gustatory Synesthesia: When People Taste Words

Lexical-Gustatory Synesthesia: When People Taste Words | Science News | Scoop.it
Synesthesia is a concept that has always fascinated people. People have long since claimed to process colors as sounds, or to associate colors with music or words.
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