In a new article appearing in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, led by Cory Shain and Hope Kean, explore how the human brain shows ...

(Zibby Andrews) Speech and language skills are at the root of your child's cognitive and social-emotional development. Each conversation you have, each opportunity to add new words to your child's ...

Both information and language are essential components of communication and can provide different benefits depending on the context. While rote language refers to memorized or repetitive language ...

A neural network trained on the experiences of a single young child managed to learn one of the core components of language: how to match words to the objects they represent. Human babies are far ...

Figure 1: History of low reading scores despite increased funding. How do phonemes come to be represented in the brain, and why do so many children with LLI have weak or imprecise phonological ...