In some ways, learning to program a computer is similar to learning a new language. It requires learning new symbols and terms, which must be organized correctly to instruct the computer what to do.

We all take language for granted, yet we rely upon it throughout our lives in order to perform a range of functions. Imagine how you would accomplish all the things you might do, even in a single day, ...

A study by the HSE Centre for Language and Brain has confirmed the role of the corpus callosum in language lateralization, ie the distribution of language processing functions between the brain's ...

Did you know speaking more than one language can help you age better? A new book released this week explores the research around multilingualism. How does speaking multiple languages affect the mind?

These are individual scans of two healthy controls and two individuals with a left-hemisphere (LH) perinatal stroke. The orange/yellow activation shows the normal language areas of the left hemisphere ...

David Abbott receives fellowship funding from the Australian National Imaging Facility. He has received grants from the National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia), the Australian ...

Listening to vocal music is a simple and cost-efficient way of promoting recovery and brain health after a stroke. Research has shown that listening to music daily improves language recovery in ...

Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. Wikipedia has 323 language editions, and at times, there are huge differences between them. For instance, ...