language

Lexical retrieval difficulties in post-COVID-19 syndrome: Insights from verbal fluency and naming tasks María González-Nosti; Arrate Barrenechea; Romina San Miguel-Abella; María del Carmen Pérez-Sánchez; Lucía Fernández-Manzano; Ainhoa Ramírez-Arjona; Noelia Rodríguez-Pérez; Elena Herrera...

I feel like the discourse, the research, and pretty much everything and anything around Long COVID and ME focuses on the “symptoms” and not the functional disability. I am not disabled by symptoms alone; I am disabled by a profound functional limitation driven by post-exertional malaise (PEM)...

Long COVID: The impact on language and cognition Louise Cummings Abstract COVID-19 continues to have profound health and economic consequences around the world. Aside from the large number of deaths from this viral infection, there is a growing population of individuals who have not made a good...

Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science Damián E.Blasi, Joseph Henrich, Evangelia Adamou, David Kemmerer, Asifa Majid Highlights The cognitive sciences have been dominated by English-speaking researchers studying other English speakers. We review studies examining language...

A Novel Approach to New Types of Novel Novelty Blog post by Derek Lowe https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/novel-approach-new-types-novel-novelty The comments discuss limitations in the knowledge of grant application reviewers, and how scientists may hype up how new something is because...

Just one of these things I have tumbling around in the back of my head for a while now, and I was curious about your opinion. One of the key characteristics of ME/CFS is that you are limited in what you can do, there is an "energy envelope" that is markedly smaller than pre-illness. You can...