Imagine you’re studying animals and you notice a pattern – bigger animals tend to have longer names. Curious, you decide to dig deeper and explore if this pattern holds true in different groups of animals. That’s exactly what the scientists did in a recent study, but instead of animals, they focused on words in different […]
Imagine you have a magical calculator that can perform arithmetic-like operations without symbols or numbers. That’s similar to what young children with limited knowledge of formal mathematics are capable of! But how exactly do these nonsymbolic arithmetic operations work? A group of researchers conducted experiments with children to investigate if there are function-like rules guiding […]
Human learners uniquely have the ability to spontaneously learn the structure of their native language (or languages), including sounds, words, and grammar. The capacity to learn speech is biologically endowed and human infants are born with a speech-ready brain [1,2]. One facet of this preparedness is a perceptual system that is sensitive to the sensory […]
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