Change is not only likely, it’s inevitable. –Barbara Sher Chances are you probably heard of the adoption of a spelling “reform” of French by children primary school textbooks. And chances are you probably heard of it through people reacting in the worst possible way to it. Twitter has seen the…

It would appear that my brain these days only let’s me focus on small tasks such as writing blog posts, commenting on facebook and getting irritated. …

In Short Can language turn you into a better see-er? In my recent paper with Gary Lupyan (UW-Madison) I show that language is capable of altering the earliest stages of visual perception to the extent that on a simple cue-picture verification task, where participants first heard either a word (e.g., “dog”) or a sound (e.g., a dog barking) then saw…