Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco have developed a bilingual brain implant that uses artificial intelligence to help a stroke survivor communicate in Spanish and English for ...

Post written by François Grosjean. University of Houston professor, Arturo Hernandez, works on the underpinnings of bilingual language processing as well as second language acquisition in children and ...

Post written by Aneta Pavlenko. Can scientists look at our brains and predict whether some of us will make more successful language learners than others? A recent study published by the Journal of ...

There is evidence that learning and using a second language results in structural and functional changes in the bilingual brain. The research team hypothesized that acquiring a second language early ...

It might even be the case that Britain’s varied bilingual communities – from Polish- to Punjabi-speakers – constitute a sort of hidden resource, invisible in the debates about the decline of languages ...

The gospel of the day is that raising children to speak and understand more than one language is good for their cognitive development. A number of studies released in the past few years have indicated ...

Learning to read reshapes how the brain processes language. New research from Baycrest and the University of São Paulo shows that learning to read fundamentally changes how the brain responds to ...

People who speak two languages may be better at shifting their attention from one thing to another compared to those who speak one, according to a study published this month in the journal ...

If things work out as hoped, brain implants will ultimately restore communication for those who have become paralyzed due to injury or disease. But we’re a long way from that future, and the implants ...

Keep your brain sharp — it’s the most important tool you have to stave off mental decline. Games, puzzles and crosswords have ...