Brain scans show a spot in the cerebellum attuned specifically to words, expanding on studies that point to the region's ...

The cerebellum, often called the little brain, plays a much bigger role in language processing than once believed. Located at ...

The language we learn growing up seems to leave a lasting, biological imprint on our brains. German and Arabic native speakers have different connection strengths in specific parts of the brain’s ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For more than a decade, Alexander Huth from the University of Texas at Austin had been striving to build a language decoder—a tool that could extract a person’s thoughts noninvasively from brain ...

The parts of the brain that are needed to remember words, and how these are affected by a common form of epilepsy, have been identified by a team of neurologists and neurosurgeons at UCL. The parts of ...