A baby's first words are, most likely, based on their visual experiences, a new study reports.
Resting state brain activity may predict how quickly people are able to pick up a second language, a new study reports.
Researchers have designed a computer system that learns how to play a text-based computer game with no prior assumptions about how language works.
Using mouse models, researchers restricted a key chemical messenger to extend efficient auditory learning until much later in life. Disrupting adenosine signaling in the auditory thalamus allowed researchers to extend the window for auditory learning well into adulthood and far beyond the current critical period.
Researchers report the critical period of language learning may be longer than previously believed. A new study reveals children remain skilled at learning new languages until age 18.
Researchers from the University of Washington report that with special tuition, babies from monolingual homes can develop bilingual abilities that remain even after their training is complete.
Children exposed to diverse regional accents on a frequent basis have an edge when it comes to language acquisition.
Bilingualism can slow and mitigate the course of age-related changes in the brain.
The 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".
A new study reveals language is learned in brain systems that predate humans.
Children with developmental language disorder have less myelin in parts of the brain associated with acquiring rules and habits, as well as brain areas associated with language production and comprehension.
Learning a new language as an adult alters hemisphere specialization for comprehension, but not for production.
