Newsroom – Category: Humanities

Scientists explain social impairments across the autistic spectrum using computational modelling more

The central use of language is in conversation, where we take short turns in rapid alternation, a pattern found across unrelated cultures and languages. In the December issue of Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Stephen Levinson from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics reviews new research on turn-taking, focusing on its implications for how languages are structured and for how language and communication evolved. more

New research presents evidence for innate understanding of language rules more

A new learning rule could help robots to acquire new movements and explain how people develop sensorimotor intelligence more

Scientists provide evidence of a link between genetic changes and the spread of farming in the Stone Age more

Newly published anthology provides an overview of ethnic inequalities in education and training more

'Broca's area' processes both language and music at the same time more

Scientists discover neural communication pathways for prosody more

Long-term study shows opportunities and risks for the aging population in Europe more

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has added to its Memory of the World register 64 collections from The Language Archive at the MPI. more