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At What Age Does Our Ability to Learn a New Language Like a Native Speaker Disappear?
The older you get the more difficult it is to learn to speak French like a Parisian. But no one knows exactly what the cutoff point is—at what age it becomes harder, for instance, to
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APS Fellow Fei Xu Receives Guggenheim Fellowship
A University of California, Berkeley psychology professor, Xu uses behavioral experiments and computational models to understand how young children learn so fast and so well.
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Back Page: Languages’ Layers
Noted linguistics researcher Ted Supalla topples the misconceptions about signed language and discusses his reasons for launching an online course about languages around the world.
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Newport, Kahana Honored by the Society of Experimental Psychologists
APS William James Fellow Elissa Newport of Georgetown University and APS Fellow Michael Kahana of the University of Pennsylvania received special awards at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Society of Experimental Psychologists.
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Podcasting a Wide Net
With help from the APS Fund for Teaching and Public Understanding of Psychological Science, Lisa Cantrell’s podcast on psychological research has grown its audience to nearly 20,000 listeners over the last 2 years.
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If Neuroscience Needs Behavior, What Does Behavioral Science Need?
According to APS William James Fellow Nora Newcombe, the answer is an investment in Big Data sets, data sharing, and standardized evaluation tools.
