Studies on monolingual language acquisition reveal that although the structural basis of language acquisition is very much in place by the time children start school, language acquisition and ...

Distinct, though neighboring, areas of the brain are activated when processing music and language, with specific sub-regions engaged for simple melodies versus complex melodies, and for simple versus ...

A recent study suggests that people in multilingual countries age more gracefully. But this may have more to do with wealth, healthcare, and structural advantage than language.

Over the past several years, there has been an increased research output in the field of language acquisition and its effects on the brain. This is especially true with regards to the effects of ...

Cerebrovascular accidents, or strokes, are the most common cause of aphasia, a speech disorder of cerebral origin. People with aphasia have a reduced ability to understand or produce speech or written ...