By examining factors such as working memory and emotional intelligence along with language background, our research moves beyond the idea of a simplistic “foreign language effect” and offers a more ...

Can we be conscious without language? Does language influence our conscious experience? These questions, which are central to understanding the human mind, have been explored by researchers at the ...

Sentences with greater linguistic complexity are most likely to fire up a key brain language processing center, according to a study that employed an artificial language network. With help from an ...

Valeria Vinogradova, a researcher at HSE University, together with British colleagues, studied how language proficiency affects cognitive processing in deaf adults. The study showed that higher ...

People are often under the false impression that making their language complex or using jargon enhances their credibility. That might be true in certain circumstances. If you’re an academic talking to ...

Complex networks offer a robust framework for understanding language and text as emergent, multi-level systems. Using graph theory, researchers represent words, punctuation, and semantic units as ...

The Modern Greek language has some aspects that would totally baffle a native English speaker for various reasons.

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Lorenz Graf-Vlachy is Professor for Strategic Management and Leadership at TU Dortmund University and one of the authors of the study. Keep it simple? Start-up entrepreneurs often hear that simplicity ...