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POSTED May 14, 12:51 PM

Read all about the relationship between language and color perception in this Scientific American piece.

"How do we perceive a rainbow? And does everyone perceive a rainbow in the same way? These seemingly simple questions can reveal some interesting features of the human brain. For instance, is the “striped” appearance of the rainbow—the seven distinct bands of color that we see—a construct of our higher mental processes, or do the mechanics of human color vision determine it at a very early perceptual level? If your language does not have separate words for “blue” and “green” (and many languages, including Welsh, do not), do you perceive these shades as more similar than a speaker of English?" Read the full story.

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Another Reason to be Bilingual

POSTED May 2, 12:19 PM

There's an interesting piece in the WSJ today about how neuroscientists studying reading disorders have discovered that children who are dyslexic in one language may not be in another. Here's an excerpt: Dyslexia, in which the mind scrambles letters... Read More

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Do You Squidoo?

POSTED April 28, 9:23 AM

I came across Squidoo while searching for a new laptop bag. This Squidoo page on Funky, Chic and Cool Laptop Bags proved to be useful and fun. Here's how the site founders describe how Squidoo functions:A LITTLE ABOUT SQUIDOO:Squidoo's goal as a platform... Read More

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17,000 Words Daily

POSTED April 21, 8:09 PM

On "Good Morning America" today, there was a report about Lena (Language Environment Analysis), which was described on GMA as a "verbal pedometer." It collects data through a digital processor and can tell you at the end of the day... Read More

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Hsiao-Ching Chou
Hsiao-Ching Chou is a partner at Suzuki + Chou Communimedia, where she serves as a senior consultant in communications. For nearly eight years prior, she was the award-winning food editor at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper. She and her television producer husband live in Seattle with their daughter, who was born in October 2006.