Nicola Del Maschio is a researcher in General Linguistics at the Faculty of Psychology of the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University. He mainly deals with the brain bases of language and bilingualism. He loves art, design, and music, which he listens to without doing anything else. In his spare time he plays golf and is led for a walk by Hercules, a Jack Russell who believes himself to be a Great Dane.
Research
The world we live in is more designed for right-handed people, i.e. people who preferably use the right hand, while left-handed people are more often faced with uncomfortable inconveniences: from ergonomic scissors to conference chairs with folding tables, from can openers to keyboard shortcuts...
Curiosiscience
Our planet is populated by nearly 8 billion people, with a current average population growth estimated at 81 million individuals per year [1]. Each individual is exposed at birth to one or more of the approximately 7140 known living languages [2]. This is a constantly fluctuating number, not only...
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