Neuroscientists have long listened to the brain’s electrical spikes, but those loud crackles are only the final output of a ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to ...

WASHINGTON, March 11 (Reuters) - While most people speak only one language or perhaps two, some are proficient in many. These people are called polyglots. And they are helping to provide insight into ...

Speaking more than one language can slow down the brain's aging and lower risks linked to accelerated aging. In a new study, researchers analyzed the Biobehavioral Age Gap (BAG) —a person's biological ...

Learn more about the “glue sniffer” protein, which is able to detect brain cells’ incoming chemical signals, and what that ...

Neuroscience shows traditional teaching is not enough. Instead, an experiential approach can return learning to its natural ...

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) captures coarse, colorful snapshots of the brain in action. Although this specialized type of magnetic resonance imaging has transformed cognitive ...

For more than a decade, Alexander Huth from the University of Texas at Austin had been striving to build a language decoder—a tool that could extract a person’s thoughts noninvasively from brain ...

In 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic escalated, many universities shut down or reduced the capacities of research laboratories in an attempt to limit the spread of the virus. At Washington University ...

In everyday conversation, it's critical to understand not just the words that are spoken, but the context in which they are said. If it's pouring rain and someone remarks on the "lovely weather," you ...