Post written by François Grosjean. University of Houston professor, Arturo Hernandez, works on the underpinnings of bilingual language processing as well as second language acquisition in children and ...

Post written by Aneta Pavlenko. Can scientists look at our brains and predict whether some of us will make more successful language learners than others? A recent study published by the Journal of ...

WHEN I was just a newborn baby, my mother gazed down at me in her hospital bed and did something that was to permanently change the way my brain developed. Something that would make me better at ...

During a presentation this past weekend at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Washington, DC, Judith Kroll, a psychologist at Penn State who studies bilingualism, ...

The gospel of the day is that raising children to speak and understand more than one language is good for their cognitive development. A number of studies released in the past few years have indicated ...

New research findings show that bilingual people are great at saving brain power, that is. To do a task, the brain recruits different networks, or the highways on which different types of information ...

A new study shows that while Czech speakers are immune to specific grammar illusions in their mother tongue, they unconsciously adopt the "glitchy" processing patterns of native speakers when reading ...

A recent study reveals that mothers and children synchronize their brain activity while interacting, regardless of the ...

Mothers and children who play together show synchronized brain activity, and that neural coupling holds steady even when the mother switches to her second language. A study of 15 bilingual families in ...

Mes CHamoru is more than just a cultural festival. It is a critical window for linguistic revitalization. For parents, ...

(OR Images/DigitalVision/Getty Images) A new study shows that mothers and their children display synchronized neural activity ...