Sentences with phrase «studies of human language»

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Artificial Intelligence (AI), according to the Oxford English Dictionary, focuses on the study of «computer systems able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence — such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision - making, and translation between languages».

Let us begin with language, perhaps the most fundamental of all studies because of the fact that speech is so clearly a distinguishing feature of human beings within the whole created order and because it is so essential to the effective conduct of all human affairs, including every aspect of education.

Humboldt states in his monograph on the dual that, though the study of language should be pursued for its own sake, it «resembles other branches of learning in not having its ultimate purpose in itself but that it conforms to the general purpose of interest in the human mind to help humanity to realize its true nature and its relation to everything visible and invisible around and above itself.»

Dr. Nina Kraus, a groundbreaking neuroscientist at Northwestern University, has been studying the effects of music training on brain development — with the use of non-invasive approaches in humans — and on the development of language skills.

Many recent studies that discuss use of human milk in preemies use language such as «though nutritional fortification is necessary,» without ever demonstrating exactly why it is necessary.

«The study of language as an important medium of human communication, brings with it the challenges of articulating and transmitting knowledge in an ever - changing world.

«Lexigrams were learned, as human language is, during meaningful social interactions, not from behavioral training,» said the study's lead author, Kristen Gillespie - Lynch, an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the City University of New York and a former UCLA graduate student in Greenfield's laboratory.

The research team led by Ji - Young Choi, an assistant professor of Human Development and Family Studies, found dual - language learners (DLLs) had significant growth, eventually outperforming students who only spoke English, once DLLs gained basic English proficiency.

In revealing neural entrainment as a generalized strategy for improving sensitivity to informational peaks, this study takes significant steps toward advancing the understanding of human language and perception.

«The study of the Dravidian languages is crucial for understanding prehistory in Eurasia, as they played a significant role in influencing other language groups,» explains corresponding author Annemarie Verkerk of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

For Vyvyan Evans, a cognitive linguist, studying emoji entails exploring everything from the nature of communication to the evolutionary origins of language to how meaning arises in the human mind.

Neurobiologist Erich Jarvis has spent the last 25 years studying the molecular mechanisms underlying the capacity for spoken language, one of the crucial traits that differentiates humans from other animals.

Past studies comparing the language - learning abilities of humans and other primates have looked at what monkeys can do with human language.

«Humans organize their knowledge of social relationships into a hierarchical structure, and they also make use of hierarchical structures when deducing relationships between words in language,» notes study co-author Robert Seyfarth.

A new study from Sweden's Karolinska Institutet shows that the «grammar» of the human genetic code is more complex than that of even the most intricately constructed spoken languages in the world.

Interestingly, while doom and gloom language was present in 10 percent of all articles in this study, only 4 percent contained only this type of language (e.g., «At this point, without human intervention, the species could go extinct within our lifetimes,» Los Angeles Times, July 4, 2012); the remaining articles expressed both doom and gloom and optimistic language.

In a novel study, «Personality Development through Natural Language,» published in the international journal, Nature: Human Behaviour, Kevin Lanning, Ph.D., lead author of the study and a professor of psychology in Florida Atlantic University's Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, together with FAU Wilkes Honors College alumna Rachel (Evans) Pauletti, and collaborators Laura A. King, Ph.D., University of Missouri, and Dan P. McAdams, Ph.D., Northwestern University, examined how personality maturation or development was reflected in natural language.

Rizzo's collaborators on SimSensei include Sandy Pentland, director of the Human Dynamics Laboratory at the mit Media Lab, who has spent years studying the meanings embedded in vocal pitch and body language.

Hoping to gain insight into how to build such a device, she spent two years at the Laboratory of Physiological Acoustics in France, studying alongside René - Guy Busnel, an expert in bioacoustics, especially dolphin whistles and human whistle - based languages.

The «supremacy» of edge syllables seems indeed to be pervasive at all ages (previous studies have shown that the same also occurs in adults) and could explain some linguistic regularities observed in human language.

«This study show that the largest leftward asymmetry of the brain is not a marker of the leftward lateralization of language functions in humans,» summarizes the researcher.

«The results of the study show that the planum temporale does not explain the rare but strong individual variability of the language domain that exists in humans and, therefore, can not be considered as a marker of language asymmetry at individual level,» they stress.

His to - do list includes spending long hours studying the basic regeneration processes of the human immune system and reading Stephen King novels to hone his English - language skills.

The scientists say their study, published in Frontiers of Neuroscience, opens a pathway to studying bat brains in order to understand certain human language disorders and potentially even improving computer speech recognition.

Toward this end, in the 1980s, Rosenthal started studying covert communication: the nonverbal language of vocal tone, facial expressions, posture and gestures that make up the bulk of human expression.

The pair are celebrated for their contributions to the study of the evolution of human culture and symbolism, and are a regular fixture at evolution of language meetings.

Calling the study «fantastic,» psychologist Lisa Feigenson of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, says that because there is such a «drastic» difference in number sense between the Pirahã and most other human groups, it must be their language that limits their conceptual abilities.

Susan Hespos, a co-author of the study, and associate professor of psychology at Northwestern's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences said, «We show that infants can form abstract relations before they learn the words that describe relations, meaning that relational learning in humans does not require language and is a fundamental human skill of its own.»

A study published in Neuron in February revealed that the variety of fat molecules found in the human neocortex, the brain region responsible for advanced cognitive functions such as language, evolved at an exceptionally fast rate after the human - ape split.

The results of the study suggest that music and language have common roots in human evolution.

Summing up the study, co-author Prof Robert Franciscus from the University of Iowa said: «When and how humans became the exceptionally intelligent and language - using species that we are today is still a great mystery.

For example, he studied the evolution of human language and culture by analyzing millions of digitized books.

«We know that every child can learn every possible human language,» said Jesse Snedeker, a Harvard psychologist who studies the development of language in children.

«The insights provided by this study into some of the biggest questions in human evolution — cognitive evolution and its relationship to the emergence of language — would have been difficult, if not impossible to achieve without the kind of interdisciplinary approach to research that this project was grounded on.»

Budapest www.nytud.mta.hu Description of the grammar of Hungarian, research into its history and that of related languages, extensive investigation of the human language capacity, explorations in the theory of grammar, study of the properties of linguistic communication, construction of comprehensive language resources, development of language technology.

The latest study was a meta - analysis of English - language studies on sperm count and concentration that was published this week in the journal Human Reproduction Update.

According to Andreassen, the study's senior author, some think of schizophrenia as a «side effect» arising from advantageous variants in genes that are related to the development of human traits, such as cognitive and language skills, that may have increased risks for developing psychoses.

The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, presents compelling evidence that stone tool - making helped to drive the evolution of language and teaching among prehistoric human ancestors in the African savanna.

The study, published today in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, analyzed the vocal sequences of seven different species of birds and mammals and found that the vocal sequences produced by the animals appear to be generated by complex statistical processes, more akin to human language.

Scientists can tell from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies that the areas of the brain devoted to speech and language are exceptionally large in humans.

Not just an other - worldly meditation on what it means to be human, like the more obvious thematic language suggests, but also a study of predatory behavior, and how self - awareness separates species.

Native Spanish speakers who participated in Tulsa's preschool program or Head Start, for instance, progressed more in their language development by the end of kindergarten than non-English learners.Michael Puma et al., Head Start Impact Study: Final Report (Washington, DC: US Department of Health and Human Services, 2010); W. T. Gormley, «The Effects of Oklahoma's Pre-K Program on Hispanic Children,» Social Science Quarterly 89 (2008): 916 — 936.

From Wikipedia: «Linguistic semantics is the study of meaning that is used for understanding human expression through language.»

«The Physique of Consciousness» is a sequence of 200 «cultural fitness exercises», the product of many years of study of human thought behavior and body language by the artist Xu Zhen and his firm «MadeIn Company», which was founded in 2010.

Her works range from conceptual to commercial and show a particular interest in using dialectical methods to create studies of architectural forms - be that in lines of the human body, manmade structures, or natural scenes - as well as on dynamics between the social and the private, gender rolls and body language.

First — the percentage of human languages carefully studied by linguists is vanishingly small (particularly when we think about this from a historical perspective).

An anthropologist may study and conduct research on a variety of topics and themes such as languages, cultures, origin, social development of humans and other species etc. the resume objective of an aspiring anthropologist must reflect upon his / her area of specialization and the goals he / she has set for himself.

«Until the release of Emotional Intelligence, which was quickly translated into many languages, there was little contact between educators like me, who were developing school programs to cultivate social and emotional competence in children, and the psychologists and research scientists studying the neurological underpinnings and development of human emotion,» says Linda Lantieri, cofounder of the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program.

Native Spanish speakers who participated in Tulsa's preschool program or Head Start, for instance, progressed more in their language development by the end of kindergarten than non-English learners.Michael Puma et al., Head Start Impact Study: Final Report (Washington, DC: US Department of Health and Human Services, 2010); W. T. Gormley, «The Effects of Oklahoma's Pre-K Program on Hispanic Children,» Social Science Quarterly 89 (2008): 916 — 936.