Sentences with greater linguistic complexity are most likely to fire up a key brain language processing center, according to a study that employed an artificial language network. With help from an ...

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig have unearthed fascinating evidence that the brain undergoes important changes in wiring when we embark on the ...

Cerebrovascular accidents, or strokes, are the most common cause of aphasia, a speech disorder of cerebral origin. People with aphasia have a reduced ability to understand or produce speech or written ...

A study of polyglots found the brain's language network responds more strongly when hearing languages a speaker is more proficient in -- and much more weakly to the speaker's native language. A new ...

Recent advances in language network research have cemented its role as a pivotal framework for understanding cognitive processing. By representing words and their interrelations as networks, ...

A wave of neuroscientific research has attempted to exploit the sophisticated statistical power of large language models (LLMs) to explore how the human brain responds to language. Yet, one issue that ...

Founded in 2020, The Language Network operates in Edtech offering online language education dedicated to promoting linguistic proficiency and cultural understanding ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- A new study of people who speak many languages has found that there is something special about how the brain processes their native language. In the brains of these polyglots — people ...