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Friday, January 09, 2009

Cultural evolution: implications for understanding the human language faculty and its evolution.

10 Nov 2008 Human language is unique among the communication systems of the natural world: it is socially learned and, as a consequence of its recursively compositional structure, offers open-ended communicative potential. The structure of this communication ... Read more...

Nonscientific factors associated with acceptance for publication in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American Volume).

30 Oct 2008 BACKGROUND: While it is widely accepted that scientific factors may render a study more likely to be accepted for publication, it is less clear whether nonscientific factors may also be associated with publication. The purpose of this study was to ... Read more...

Concepts are more than percepts: the case of action verbs.

27 Oct 2008 Several regions of the posterior-lateral-temporal cortex (PLTC) are reliably recruited when participants read or listen to action verbs, relative to other word and nonword types. This PLTC activation is generally interpreted as reflecting the ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Language'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Cultural evolution: implications for understanding the human language faculty and its evolution. 10 Nov 2008
• Lost in translation: the Mallampati score? 30 Oct 2008
• Nonscientific factors associated with acceptance for publication in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American Volume). 30 Oct 2008
• Concepts are more than percepts: the case of action verbs. 27 Oct 2008
• Brain potentials to native phoneme discrimination reveal the origin of individual differences in learning the sounds of a second language. 11 Oct 2008
• Speaking the right language: the scientific method as a framework for a continuous quality improvement program within academic medical research compliance units. 29 Sep 2008
• Reading spaced and unspaced Chinese text: evidence from eye movements. 29 Sep 2008
• Intraoperative mapping of language functions: a longitudinal neurolinguistic analysis. 29 Sep 2008
• Long-term brain plasticity allowing a multistage surgical approach to World Health Organization Grade II gliomas in eloquent areas. 29 Sep 2008
• The role of in-house medical communications centers in medical institutions in nonnative English-speaking countries. 29 Sep 2008
• [László Blaskovics (1869-1938)] 19 Sep 2008
• Further validation of the peripheral artery questionnaire: results from a peripheral vascular surgery survey in the Netherlands. 16 Sep 2008
• Ability of ethnic self-identification to partition modifiable health risk among US residents of Mexican ancestry. 15 Sep 2008
• Language spoken and differences in health status, access to care, and receipt of preventive services among US Hispanics. 15 Sep 2008
• Cognitive health in indigenous peoples. 15 Sep 2008
• Capitalizing on deep brain stimulation: thalamus as a language monitor. 9 Sep 2008
• Going with your gut: some thoughts on language and the body. 4 Sep 2008
• Patient involvement. Parlez-vous health? 2 Sep 2008
• Lost for words. Sep 2008
• Sports experience changes the neural processing of action language. 31 Aug 2008

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Technical information about 'Language'

Definition: A verbal or nonverbal means of communicating ideas or feelings.

Descriptor UI: D007802

Alternative terms: Language; Languages;

Related Mesh Headings: Sign Language; Multilingualism;

Tree Number: F01.145.209.399; L01.143.506;

Technical Notes: what is spoken or written; do not confuse with LINGUISTICS (see note there) or SPEECH (language as it comes out of the mouth); no qualif