Whistle while you work, indeed. A language that uses a series of whistles to communicate has challenged the conventional wisdom that language is a left-brain activity. Whistled Turkish — which is ...

High above the Black Sea, villagers communicate across deep valleys using a whistled language. Elders are working to keep alive this tradition,... In A Turkish Village, A Conversation With Whistles, ...

Generally speaking, language processing is a job for the brain's left hemisphere. That's true whether that language is spoken, written, or signed. But researchers have discovered an exception to this ...

Researchers at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum have debunked the theory that the left brain hemisphere is dominant in the processing of all languages. To date, it has been assumed that that dominance is ...

Onur Guentuerkuen, a biological psychologist at Bochum University in Germany, has studied the Turkish whistling language. It can be understood up to almost four miles away. Turkish whistling, to be ...

Amid the mountains of northeast Turkey, people whistle messages that ring across valleys like ornate bird songs. Unlike with hearing spoken languages, listeners who understand this rare form of ...

A seasonally inspired stream for the curious, but distracted. Let us know what you think. By The New York Times Unlike all other spoken languages, a whistled form of Turkish requires that “speakers” ...

Generally speaking, language processing is a job for the brain's left hemisphere. That's true whether that language is spoken, written, or signed. But researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal ...

In a remote mountain village high above Turkey's Black Sea coast, there are villagers who still communicate across valleys by whistling. Not just whistling as in a non-verbal, "Hey, you!" But actually ...