Language development in autistic children is far from uniform: some progress without notable difficulty, while others show ...

Some of the most complex cognitive functions are possible because different sides of your brain control them. Chief among them is speech perception, the ability to interpret language. In people, the ...

Adults vary in how easily they learn new languages. While previous studies suggest this variability may be due to the ...

Multiple regions of the brain engage in fast-moving conversations to understand language, UTHealth Houston researchers have discovered, dispelling a prior school of thought that only one region of the ...

A new study of bilingual speakers suggests that a single “grammatical engine” in the brain can power multiple languages at ...

Bilingualism has a profound impact on the structure and function of the brain, but it is not yet well understood how this experience influences brain functional organization. We examine a large sample ...

While vocal articulation is a unique feature of spoken languages, signed languages use facial expressions and hand movements for communication. Despite this substantial difference, neuroimaging ...

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 ...

Aphasia occurs when a brain disorder affects a person’s language abilities, such as speaking, reading, and writing. The type of aphasia a person has depends on where damage occurs in the brain.

The human brain, as the seat of mental life—from the most complicated intellectual processes down to routine and unconscious bodily control—is necessarily enormously complex. The largest part of the ...