My word

My word Colored chalk

On the first day of teaching a new class I carry with me a stack of paper syllabi and a new box of colored chalk — each pink, yellow, green, purple, orange and blue stick unblemished and whole, ready to be eroded and broken in the service of teaching neuroscience. My teaching assistants carefully post the syllabus on the web, and even more carefully update it to accommodate my inability to stic...

Take my word for it: How professional vocabularies foster organizing

Professional vocabularies are sources of categories that non-professionals borrow and use. Accordingly, professions play a key role in divisions of linguistic labor, generating and distributing, but maintaining control over, words that other use to guide their thinking and behavior. Collectively, organizations and fields coordinate in part through integrating words borrowed from multiple profes...

Read my lips: Visual speech influences word processing in infants.

What do infants hear when they read lips? In the present study, twelve-to-thirteen-month-old infants viewed a talking face produce familiar and unfamiliar words. The familiar words were of three types: in Experiment 1, they were produced correctly (e.g., "bottle"); in Experiment 2, infants saw and heard mispronunciations in which the altered phoneme either visually resembled the original phonem...

painting and essay competition: my city, my neighborhood

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O-23: "Caring My Family Integrity"