We know that a specific form of magnetic stimulation to the brain can render people unable to speak. But it can get a lot more specific than that. Brain lesions can get so selective, they can knock ...

Surgeons assume general anesthesia switches off the higher brain. Recordings from single neurons in seven patients show the opposite: while they were unconsciou ...

The portable sign with large lettering was close to the curb on 13th Avenue South and read, "The boss has went crazy." Actually, I'm not sure whether the last word was "crazy." It might have been ...

Anyone who has ever learned a foreign language knows how laborious it is to acquire vocabulary and grammar. In contrast, children acquire their first language seemingly effortlessly. By the age of ...

A group of neuroscientists argue that our words are primarily for communicating, not for reasoning. By Carl Zimmer For thousands of years, philosophers have argued about the purpose of language. Plato ...

At the Psycholinguistic Laboratory of the University of the Basque Country (EHU-UPV), Basque-Spanish bilingualism and the relation between language and the brain have been under study. It is a fact ...