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

WASHINGTON, March 11 (Reuters) - While most people speak only one language or perhaps two, some are proficient in many. These people are called polyglots. And they are helping to provide insight into ...

Sentences with greater linguistic complexity are most likely to fire up a key brain language processing center, according to a study that employed an artificial language network. With help from an ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA --With help from an artificial language network, MIT neuroscientists have discovered what kind of sentences are most likely to fire up the brain’s key language processing centers. The ...

The connections between different regions of the brain responsible for language processing depend on which language you grew up with. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Japanese, Italian, Ukrainian, Swahili, Tagalog and dozens of other spoken languages cause the same "universal language network" to light up in the brains of native speakers. This hub of language ...

A new study has provided the first clear picture of where language processes are located in the brain. The findings may be useful in clinical trials involving language recovery after brain injury.

There are many reasons to learn a new language — it might be for work, a love interest, or a personal interest in a region's culture or people. Research shows that learning languages benefits your ...

People with a stroke-related language disorder have key differences in brain activity compared to healthy controls that may explain their impaired verbal speech processing.

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 ...