What do you visualize when you read words such as “person,” “people” or “individual”? Chances are the image in your head is of a man, not a woman. If so, you are not alone. A massive linguistic ...

Following on from fMRI in 1000 words, which seemed to go down well, here’s the next step: how to analyze the data. Motion Correction – during the course of the experiment subjects often move their ...

Analysis is an important skill to learn and practise in English – it helps you to explore and understand the writer’s craft. When we analyse a text, we are trying to understand how it works. We can ...

BOSTON – Within the quiet pages of books, words are battling it out with a competitive fierceness that rivals Wall Street’s. New research examining the frequency of words used in books over more than ...