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The Family That Couldn't Say Hippopotamus - Issue 17: Big Bangs - Nautilus - 1 views

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  • Chomsky
  • language organ
  • Coming out of an era of rapid advances in computer technology, the idea of a discrete, common origin to human language made intuitive sense.
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  • Further study revealed that the FOXP2 gene is relevant to multiple mental abilities and is not strictly a language gene at all.
  • The same gene that regulated language so strongly also regulated other mental faculties, so its very existence appeared to contradict rather than strengthen the idea that language commands its own territory separate from other areas of the brain.
  • the language-as-island idea is also inconsistent with the way evolution typically works. “What I don’t like about the ‘module’ is the idea that it evolved from scratch somehow. In my view, it’s more that existing neural circuits have been adapted for language and speech.
  • language relies on a surprisingly broad neural support system
  • -month-old babies show activation in a number of different brain regions when they hear speech, inclu
  • ding in the cerebellum, which is important for coordinating motor movements
  • The problem with ‘gene for x’ or ‘grammar module y’ is they ignore how something that is the property of an individual is linked to something that is the property of a community
  • language is a distributed object
  • across the human brain and across generations of people
  • Daniel Barber on 30 Sep 14
     
    Beautifullywritten argument for a messy evolution of language in community and across the brain, not boxed in to a language organ.
Daniel Barber

▶ The Neuroscience of Language and Learning - YouTube - 0 views

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neuroscience learning education research brain

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  • Daniel Barber on 28 Oct 13
     
    This is a wonderful lecture from Karen Froud, Director of the Neurocognition of Language Lab, and Associate Professor of Speech-Language Pathology and Neuroscience and Education at Teachers College, at the cutting edge of neuroeducation.
Daniel Barber

A dominant hemisphere for handedness and language? - 0 views

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hemisphere language

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  • Daniel Barber on 05 Jul 14
     
    Location of language areas in the brain is independent of left- or right-handedness, except for a very small proportion of left-handed individuals.
Daniel Barber

Think twice, speak once: Bilinguals process both languages simultaneously - 1 views

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  • Daniel Barber on 28 Sep 13
     
    Bilingual speakers can switch languages seamlessly, likely developing a higher level of mental flexibility than monolinguals, according to Penn State linguistic researchers.
Daniel Barber

Is there a universal language of sound? | David Shariatmadari | Opinion | The Guardian - 0 views

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phonology sounds words onomatopeia

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  • Daniel Barber on 16 Sep 16
     
    Evidence that "sound symbolism" extends much further than onomatopeia. Universals across languages.
Daniel Barber

Frontiers | Search "foreign languages" - 0 views

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brain neuroscience search

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  • Daniel Barber on 05 Nov 13
     
    Frontiers is an open access resource for scientists and those interested in academic writing in specific fields. This search for 'foreign languages' throws up a great deal of potentially interesting articles. For browsing only - more digging required to access whole article
Daniel Barber

Differences in Attainment and Performance in a Foreign Language: The Role of Working Me... - 3 views

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working memory phonology research

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    Performance in a Foreign Language: The Role of Working Memory Capacity. Complex and hard-to-interpret data.
Daniel Barber

How the language you speak changes your view of the world - 0 views

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  • Daniel Barber on 04 May 15
     
    German speakers have a holistic worldview whereas English speakers focus only on the action
Daniel Barber

Learn a second language to slow ageing brain's decline - health - 03 June 2014 - New Sc... - 0 views

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  • Daniel Barber on 05 Jun 14
     
    As if we needed a reason to learn languages!... Here's another
Daniel Barber

Age of language learning shapes brain structure: A cortical thickness study of bilingua... - 0 views

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  • Daniel Barber on 11 Nov 14
     
    Age of language learning shapes brain structure: A cortical thickness study of bilingual and monolingual individuals
Daniel Barber

What happens in the brain when you learn a language? | Education | theguardian.com - 2 views

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  • Daniel Barber on 04 Sep 14
     
    Report of a number of interesting studies into SLA.
Daniel Barber

The linguistic genius of babies: what does it mean for grown-ups? | teflresearch - 0 views

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phonological neuroscience phonology bilingual

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  • Daniel Barber on 05 Apr 13
     
    Babies soon hone in on the subtleties of their mother tongue's phonological idiosyncrasies at the expense of foreign sounds, and what this means for older people learning second languages.
Daniel Barber

Does reading (and learning a language) require two brains? « Jeremy Harmer's ... - 1 views

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  • Daniel Barber on 12 Feb 13
     
    Jeremy's enthusiastic 'reading' of cognitive research that suggests extensive reading for pleasure and intensive reading for study are physiologically different processes. He posits that extensive reading points to 'acquisition' rather than more conscious 'learning'
Daniel Barber

Pictorial mnemonics and sound contrasting yield more effective English teaching - 0 views

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mnemonics english teaching learning phonology

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  • images they used linked the shapes of the alphabet letters with images of Japanese words that begin with those letters
  • Daniel Barber on 11 Jan 14
     
    Evidence for pedagogic sense in involving learners' knowledge of L1 to aid their acquisition of L2. Learners associate English letters with Japanese words as a mnemonic. Also, explicit differentiation of the two language systems' phonic systems seems to help better understanding of English in Japanese children.
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Researchers map brain areas vital to understanding language - 0 views

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  • Daniel Barber on 27 Nov 13
     
    Using subjects with brain lesions, scienists are mapping cgnitive processes involved in decoding texts - top-down processing to you and me
Daniel Barber

Frontiers | Musical expertise and foreign speech perception | Frontiers in Systems Neur... - 0 views

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  • Daniel Barber on 04 Dec 13
     
    Musicians percieve prosodic differences in foreign languages better than non-musicians
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