When English speakers say "rose" and Chinese speakers say "玫瑰," do they mean the same thing? A Peking University team led by ...

However, there's evidence that parts of the brain involved in language, like the dorsal anterior temporal lobe (ATL), are also involved in this process— dementia patients with ATL damage, for example, ...

Our ability to store information about familiar objects depends on the connection between visual and language processing regions in the brain, according to a new study. Our ability to store ...

Seven epilepsy patients lay unconscious on operating tables at Baylor College of Medicine, their brains exposed for surgery, ...

Baylor College of Medicine researchers have found that the human brain is capable of sophisticated language processing while in an unconscious state from general anesthesia. The findings, published in ...

Reading on paper reportedly improves story comprehension compared to its digital version, although the underlying ...

Valeria Vinogradova, a researcher at HSE University, together with British colleagues, studied how language proficiency affects cognitive processing in deaf adults. The study showed that higher ...

Even while listening, the brain attempts to anticipate the next words. This is the conclusion reached by a current study ...