LATE: A common cause of dementia you’ve never heard of

A fourth disorder that causes dementia has been added to the list. It’s called LATE and is estimated to cause about 15 to 20 percent of all dementias.

Andrew E. Budson • harvard
May 4, 2022 ~3 min

What words can convey

Natural language processing models capture rich knowledge of words’ meanings through statistics.

Jennifer Michalowski | McGovern Institute for Brain Research • mit
May 3, 2022 ~5 min


Want more students to learn languages? Win over the parents, research suggests

Parents influence children’s attitudes to languages far more than their teachers or friends, research finds. This implies that efforts to reverse the national

Cambridge University News • cambridge
May 3, 2022 ~7 min

Blind people recall speech better than sighted people

Blind people can remember speech better than sighted people, but do no better when remembering sounds, a new study shows.

Johns Hopkins University • futurity
April 29, 2022 ~5 min

What is aphasia? Researchers explain

Experts on the language disorder aphasia explain symptoms, diagnosis, and treatments, and dispel some common myths.

Noelle Toumey Reetz-Georgia State • futurity
April 27, 2022 ~10 min

Computing our climate future

To put global climate modeling at the fingertips of local decision-makers, some scientists think it’s time to rethink the system from scratch.

Paige Colley | School of Science • mit
April 13, 2022 ~10 min

We mimic the accent we think we’ll hear

People imitate accent features they believe they'll hear, even before the person they're speaking to has said a word, research confirms.

Michele Berger-Penn • futurity
April 12, 2022 ~7 min

In practice, the word ‘person’ isn’t gender neutral

"People" and "person" are gender neutral words according to their definitions, but not in the way we actually use them.

James Devitt-NYU • futurity
April 7, 2022 ~7 min


Lessons from modern languages can reboot Latin learning

A new guide calls for a broader approach to teaching Latin, one that draws on modern languages education, involving speaking, music and storytelling.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
April 7, 2022 ~7 min

‘Threat dictionary’ gauges cultural response to fear

The "threat dictionary" contains 240 terms and uses natural language processing. It offers a way to track cultures responding to fearful events and ideas.

Stanford • futurity
April 6, 2022 ~12 min

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