The FINANCIAL — new study using MRI has revealed structural brain changes in children with developmental language disorder (DLD), a common but under-recognised difficulty in language learning ...

This common condition affects children’s spoken language development, but similarity to other disorders makes it hard to detect.

Discover the fascinating connection between language learning and brain development as we delve into the insights provided by scientific research. Uncover the cognitive benefits, neurological ...

Learning a language later in life changes how the two halves of the brain contribute. As skills improve, language comprehension changes hemisphere specialization, but production does not ...

A study of adults learning a new language found that speaking primarily activated regions in the left side of the brain, but reading and listening comprehension were much more variable ...

"In general, people tend to get discouraged by how hard language learning can be, but if you could give someone 13 percent to 15 percent better results after their first session, maybe they'd be ...

Over the past several years, there has been an increased research output in the field of language acquisition and its effects on the brain.

A study in patients with epilepsy is helping researchers understand how the brain manages the task of learning a new language while retaining our mother tongue.

Besides learning to walk and explore the physical world, children in their formative years learn to travel along the fascinating pathways of language.

A combined brain-scanning and behavior study has explored dyslexia in 7 & 8-year-old children learning how to read. Dyslexic youngsters were shown to have different activation in the left ...

Experts say the more we challenge our brains as we age, the more resilient it becomes—and “learning a new instrument is a ...

Could a student’s lack of sleep cause learning difficulties, or are their learning difficulties making it hard for them to get a good night’s sleep? Kids with learning challenges like ADHD or ...