The cerebellum, a part of the brain traditionally associated with balance and movement, is also important for more complex tasks like reading and spelling, a University of Alberta study suggests.

How do we learn to predict other people's behavior? It is a process that begins during the first months of life and depends on several factors, for example, whether or not we share the same linguistic ...

Why humans have language and why other animals lack it is one question that has intrigued people since forever, and many scientists too, from anthropologists to neuroscientists to linguists. Over the ...

Language makes us human. For a long time, psychologists, linguists and neuroscientists have been racking their brains about how we process what we hear and read. One of them is the renowned linguist ...

Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since Aristotle, who wrote that humanity was “the animal that has language.” ...

People with language disorder have difficulty expressing themselves and understanding what others are saying. This is unrelated to hearing problems. Language disorder, formerly known as ...

Another entry for the ever-expanding category of "the brain is a very strange place" posts. A paper in PNAS suggests that what we call a color may influence how we perceive it. The image below shows a ...

Successful communication requires a strong foundation in language. While speech intelligibility can impact a listener’s understanding of a spoken message, language deficits can have the same impact ...