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Friday, July 22, 2011

Recently in the headlines

  • SD: Birdsong independent of brain size: sex difference in the brain varies according to social status
  • SD: Learning to count not as easy as 1, 2, 3: working with larger numbers matters
  • SD: Unexpected function of dyslexia-linked gene: controlling cilia of cells
  • NS: Parrots join apes & Aristotle in the club of reason
  • SD: Components of speech recognition pathway in humans identified
  • Youtube: Chomsky lectures at University of Cologne lecture 1, lecture 2
  • NS: First evidence that birds tweet using grammar
  • SD: Dyslexia linked to difficulties in perceiving rhythmic patterns in music
  • Science: Chimps are good listeners, too
  • NS: Project Nim: A chimp raised as a human
  • SD: English for advanced learners: linguists examine obstacles to native-like proficiency in foreign language acquisition
  • J of Neurosci: Neural coding of syntactic structure in learned vocalizations in the songbird
  • Nature: Songbirds possess the spontaneous ability to discriminate syntactic rules
  • Language Log: Finch linguistics
  • BBC: Lizard has problem-solving skills
  • LA Times: UC Berkeley asks incoming students to say more than 'hello'
  • NS: Age no excuse for failing to learn a new language
  • Geekosystem: Study shows parrot parents name their babies
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