language
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Brain power
Indigenous languages must feature more in science communication
Considering the language aspect of knowledge transfer.
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2016's top 100 journal articles
Natural speech used to map semantic system of cerebral cortex [2016’s top 100 journal articles]
Research subjects listened to narrative stories while brain responses were recorded by fMRI. Voxel-wise modelling was then used to estimate…
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Systems & complexity
The Emoji Evolution: The short and long of the emoji
Can emoji be defined as a language? Exploring the place of emoji in modern communication.
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News & community
For the first time ever, the Word of the Year is not actually a word
The Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2015 is not a word. For the first time ever, it’s an emoji…
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Systems & complexity
Clarification techniques are universal in language
A fantastic linguistic study by Mark Dingemanse and Nick Enfield has shown that languages use three near-universal techniques to clarify potential…