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The idea that kids are like sponges is behind several harmful trends in parenting and education that encourage kids to be passive, blunting their learning and brain development.

Whether you're reading Pride and Prejudice, Heated Rivalry, or another novel, reading fiction can improve your emotional intelligence.

The way we talk to AI can spill over into our conversations with each other, fraying social norms and our society.

Did you know that talking is great exercise for your brain? Experts are worried that talking is declining as we focus more on our phones.

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The problem runs deeper than social awkwardness.

The Patriots quarterback has showcased his leadership style this year by letting humility and gratitude lead the way.

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Children’s exposure to language is shaped by interactional needs in conversation. Prior research has largely focused on how such language influences w…

Backchannels and fillers are important linguistic expressions in dialogue, but are under-represented in modern transformer-based language models (LMs). Our work studies the representation of them in l...

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How do speakers plan complex descriptions and then execute those plans? In this work, we attempt to answer this question by asking subjects to describ…

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Officials at the University of Chicago Crime Lab's Policing Leadership Academy brought in members of storied improv theater The Second City to teach police leaders the skills found in improv.

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In this episode of Talk Nerdy, Cara is joined by psycholinguist and Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Language Sciences at the University of Wisconsin−Madison, Dr. Maryellen MacDonald. They discuss...

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The man arrested after crashing the car in Nebraska, Gavin Thompson, 23, of Dodgeville, was still in custody in Nebraska on Thursday.

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Author Maryellen MacDonald shares 5 key insights from her new book, More Than Words: How Talking Sharpens the Mind and Shapes Our World.

"This beautifully written book by Maryellen MacDonald demonstrates how 'word-work' shapes both our experience of the world and the very brain that produced our capacity to articulate and generate our ...