How you process language is influenced by how each side of your brain developed in early life. Peter Dazeley/The Image Bank via Getty Images Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic ...

Brain research can provide valuable information about children who may need extra support before they start struggling with reading in the classroom.

Hearing a mother’s voice helps premature babies’ brains grow faster and develop stronger language connections.

New research suggests that socialising could help to reduce the risk of frailty later in life.Researchers from Newcastle University examined data on more than 2,000 men over the age of 65 who were ...

Hearing the sound of their mother's voice promotes development of language pathways in a premature baby's brain, according to ...

There are many reasons to learn a new language — it might be for work, a love interest, or a personal interest in a region's culture or people. Research shows that learning languages benefits your ...

Long before factories, mines, and cars filled the air with pollution, our distant ancestors were already living with a silent ...

Babies born too soon seem to have stronger connections in one of the major brain areas that supports language processing if ...

Most research focuses on global languages like English, French or Chinese. Hawaiian voices have largely been left out.

A global study finds quitting smoking helps preserve memory and cognitive health, even for adults who quit in their 50s or ...