FeaturedNeuroscience·December 5, 2022·4 min readHow the Broca’s Area of the Brain Helps Children Easily Learn GrammarThe development of a child's general and grammatical linguistic abilities between the ages of 3 to 4 is accompanied by the maturation of brain structures within the "language network".Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·December 12, 2021·4 min readOur Emotions and Identity Can Affect How We Use GrammarStudy reveals how emotional context affects how we use and understand language at the neural level.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·January 29, 2018·5 min readLanguage is Learned in Brain Circuits that Predate HumansA new study reveals language is learned in brain systems that predate humans.Read More
FeaturedPsychology·December 7, 2015·3 min readChomsky Was Right, We Possess An Internal GrammarResearchers find new support for Noam Chomsky’s decades-old theory that we possess an “internal grammar” that allows us to comprehend even nonsensical phrases.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·May 13, 2013·3 min readGrammar Errors? The Brain Detects Them Even When You Are UnawareResearchers discover people detect and process grammatical errors with no conscious awareness of doing so.Read More
