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Could a simple language test detect Parkinson’s disease?

The quest to find a standard test to detect Parkinson’s disease has been an ongoing one. Despite many efforts, we still do not have one, but could a language test be the answer?

Astrid Aernoudts • 09-05-2017

Human Potential · Language

Language switchers are brain trainers

If you can read this while English is not your mother tongue, then you are part of the increasing amount of bilinguals in the world. But did you know that speaking multiple languages can improve your executive functioning skills?

Olga Boer • 25-04-2017

Pharma · Human Potential · Junior · Social · Stress and Emotion · Language

Recruiting and testing participants: not a lousy job

Consider this blog a letter to anyone (students, supervisors) who is captured by the idea that data collection is a disrespectful job that can be done by anyone. Let me remind you why recruitment and testing of participants is anything but ignoble.

Laura Steenbergen • 17-01-2017

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Cocaine consumption impairs language production

In order to speak correctly we need inhibitory mechanisms to choose the right words to say. Does cocaine consumption impair language production?

Manuel J. Ruiz • 03-02-2015

Junior · Language

Bilingual education: How two is better than one

Bilinguals outperform monolinguals in a variety of ways. But what does this mean for people who are still in the process of becoming a bilingual, such as high school students who follow bilingual education?

Laura Steenbergen • 02-06-2014

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Could a simple language test detect Parkinson’s disease?

Language switchers are brain trainers

Recruiting and testing participants: not a lousy job

Cocaine consumption impairs language production

Bilingual education: How two is better than one