Older adults may find learning new languages challenging, but recent research shows the effort itself provides significant ...

When people are framed as something less than fully human, public empathy and willingness to protect their rights shrink ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to ...

A new study suggests that everyday multilingual habits—from chatting with neighbors to revisiting a childhood language—may help preserve memory, attention, and brain flexibility as we age. An ...

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development ...

A new study reveals that the human brain processes spoken language in a sequence that closely mirrors the layered architecture of advanced AI language models. Using electrocorticography data from ...

Learn the new science of brain development and discover the importance of connections and learning for ongoing brain health.

A protein capable of recording incoming chemical signals of brain cells was engineered by scientists, which could decode the brain.

Understanding a simple-looking sentence such as “I read this article yesterday” actually requires some sophisticated conceptual computation: a subject (“I”) performed an action (“read”) on an object ( ...

Hysell V Oviedo receives funding from NIH. Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic information into parallel channels – linguistic, emotional and musical – and acts as a biological ...