Frontotemporal dementia causes striking shifts in behavior, emotion, and communication—making loved ones seem like different ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How you process language is influenced by how each side of your brain developed in early life. Peter Dazeley/The Image Bank via ...

Researchers discover that language and Theory of Mind originate in separate brain regions in children, challenging theories of overlapping cognitive development.

Learning a new language isn’t just about words — it reshapes your brain, sharpens decision-making, and even slows signs of ...

Infants born deaf or hard of hearing show adverse changes in how their brains organize and specialize, but exposure to sound and language may help them develop more normally, according to new research ...

Similarly, language processing is a "species" of sensorimotor processing. The brain didn't invent entirely new computational machinery for language; instead, it repurposed and specialized existing ...

Our ability to store information about familiar objects depends on the connection between visual and language processing regions in the brain, according to a new study. Our ability to store ...

New research is rewriting what we know about language learning at every stage of life. From children to seniors, the ability to acquire new languages is not limited by age—and may even protect brain ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American When Emperor Akihito stepped down from the ...

In a first-of-its-kind finding, researchers at University of Iowa Health Care discovered that specific genetic sequences have ...