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Can you become "mentally" bilingual after 8?
Anecdotally speaking yes, I moved to another country where I couldn't practice my native one and after some years I started thinking in the once foreign one. I am now back to my original country and ...
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Does the brain generate identical words in different languages similarly?
Here's an article talking about exactly what you are asking:
EEG decoding of spoken words in bilingual listeners: from words to language invariant semantic-conceptual representations
I can say that ...
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Is there evidence for cross-cultural differences in problem solving skills?
A bit of a broad question as a full answer will really depend on the specifics of the problem being addressed.
In short though, yes, cultural factors, and probably to some extent linguistic factors ...
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Counterfactual thinking and the origin of language
This is controversial, to say the least, and possibly false according to one interpretation on such experiments with monkeys. But note that there is a subtlety here: the way counterfactuals are ...
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Do readers consider the passive voice as more authoritative?
Short answer
I haven't found scientific literature on it. Non-scientific sources generally do seem to acknowledge that the passive voice radiates authority.
Background
To answer the question if ...
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Do pictures help young children read (understand meaning) better or does it give them a delayed sense of imagination when decoding information?
I wrote Vexed Texts a long time ago. Since then I have asked the same question and found no research on it, so I did my own research as my doctoral thesis. You can find the results if you want to in ...
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What is the rationale behind filler words?
What is the rationale behind those constructs from a neurolinguistic point of view?
A simple conversation engages multiple areas of the brain, there are temporal areas for recognizing, planning & ...
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How does the brain encode order of information in sentences/stories?
Similar to your other question, this one reduces to "what are the neural mechanisms behind language?", which is very much a work in progress.
The only neural model of language that I currently know ...
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