FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·September 27, 2022·3 min readLanguage Learning Difficulties in Children Linked to Brain DifferencesChildren 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.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·April 11, 2022·6 min readForeign Languages Slow Down Brain AgingBilingualism can slow and mitigate the course of age-related changes in the brain.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·October 25, 2021·5 min readStudying a Second Language Boosts Cognitive FunctionOlder adults who studied to learn a new language showed similar improvements in critical cognitive skills as those who used brain training apps to stay sharp.Read More
Auditory NeuroscienceFeaturedNeuroscience·August 30, 2021·5 min readStruggling to Learn a New Language? Blame It on Your Stable BrainA new study may answer why it is so difficult for us to learn a second language as we enter adulthood.Read More
Auditory NeuroscienceFeaturedNeuroscience·August 2, 2021·3 min readLearning Foreign Languages Can Affect the Processing of Music in the BrainLearning a new language can affect musical processing in children, researchers report. Findings support the theory that musical and linguistic functions are closely linked in the developing brain.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·March 27, 2021·6 min readMeasurable Changes in Brain Activity During First Few Months of Studying a New LanguageWithin months of learning a new language, increased activity in brain areas associated with auditory processing, memory, and grammatical comprehension occurs. As language skills improve, the activity decreases.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·November 17, 2020·3 min readLearning a New Language Changes the Brain’s Division of LaborLearning a new language as an adult alters hemisphere specialization for comprehension, but not for production.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·February 3, 2020·5 min readParentese helps parents, babies make ‘conversation’ and boosts language developmentParents who speak to their infant in parentese, or baby-talk, help increase their child's language acquisition skills.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·July 26, 2019·5 min readThe ‘blowfish effect’: Children learn new words like adults doBoth adults and young children assign a narrower interpretation to a word if it is exemplified by an atypical category member. The study sheds new light on how children learn to see, talk and understand the world around them.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·February 20, 2019·4 min readMandarin Chinese Could Help Us Understand How Infants Learn EnglishA new study considers how lexical tones can affect an infant's ability to associated words with objects.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·January 31, 2019·5 min readLearning New Vocabulary During SleepA new study reveals taking a short daytime nap can help to consolidate learning and memory of new foreign words.Read More
Auditory NeuroscienceFeaturedNeuroscience·December 17, 2018·3 min readPassive Exposure Alone Can Enhance the Learning of Foreign Speech SoundsA new study reveals passive exposure to foreign speech sounds over the course of several consecutive days helps enhance discrimination abilities and language learning.Read More
