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Language and Memory
Bilingualism: The foreign language effect does not extend to rational decision making
Lee Curley investigates if the foreign language effect extended to rationality. Image courtesy of Lee Curley Read the…
The Language of Pain: Is There a Relationship Between Metaphor Use and Adjustment to Chronic Pain?
Toby Newton-John discusses potential associations between the types of pain metaphors used and diagnostic category, disability, and mood.…
How Gesture Influences Thought
Susan Goldin-Meadow discusses how the gestures that speakers spontaneously produce as they talk are acts of the body…
Speech Sound Disorders: An Articulatory Phonology Perspective
Pascal van Lieshout and Aravind Kumar Namasivayam discuss the phonetic-phonology dichotomy and the interconnectedness between these levels and…
Preventative Reading Interventions
Robert Savage, Head of Psychology, UCL Institute of Education, discusses research into two experimenter-delivered, small-group word reading programs…
Dynamic conceptualizations of threat in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a severe mental health problem of a heterogeneous nature. To add to discussions around…
Identification of fluency and word-finding difficulty in samples of children with diverse language backgrounds
Stuttering and word-finding difficulty (WFD) are two types of communication difficulty that occur frequently in children who learn…
Planum temporale asymmetry in people who stutter
Historically, altered language dominance has been considered a cause of developmental stuttering. Peter Howell, University College London, research involves…
Seeing the world through others’ minds: Inferring social context from behaviour
Peter Mitchell, University of Nottingham, is editor of the British Journal of Psychology. He has served as Chair…
Childrens Learning and Language
While practitioners are increasingly asked to be mindful of the evidence base of intervention programmes, evidence from rigorous…
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