Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought that originally began to emerge in the 1970s due to dissatisfaction with formal approaches to language. As I explain in my book, ...

After 150 years of mystery, neuroscience has finally cracked the code on how language works in the brain—and the answer is surprisingly elegant.

Speaking multiple languages could slow down brain ageing and help to prevent cognitive decline, a study of more than 80,000 people has found.The work, published in Nature Aging on 10 November, ...

In conversations, the way someone frames their ideas can reveal as much about their intelligence as the ideas themselves. While jargon and complex vocabulary might seem to indicate brilliance, truly ...

The Language and Cognition Laboratory (LC-Lab) will investigate how people process linguistic information by employing ...