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.

Speaking multiple languages could slow down brain ageing and help to prevent cognitive decline, a study of more than 80,000 people has found. The work, published in Nature Aging on 10 November, ...

Physicians and fitness gurus alike know that exercise wards off some of the most debilitating age-related maladies. Now, a ...

“Learning a new language is like working out your brain,” said Jennifer Wittmeyer, a cognitive neuroscientist at ...

While kids can pick up new languages at a rapid clip, we adults often struggle to remember the word for fork three months into French class. Historically, this age-related mismatch in language ...

Millions of children around the world suffer from learning difficulties, which include dyslexia and language processing disorder, and are linked to conditions like dyspraxia, ADHD, and autism spectrum ...

Adults learning another language often tend to continue using the intonation of their native language. This causes them to make mistakes in the new language: incorrect intonation can change the ...

Different learning difficulties do not correspond to specific regions of the brain, as previously thought, say researchers at the University of Cambridge. Instead poor connectivity between 'hubs' ...

When it comes to learning a language, the left side of the brain has traditionally been considered the hub of language processing. But new research shows the right brain plays a critical early role in ...

Long-term cognitive, memory, and concentration problems that may occur in children and teenagers who have sustained traumatic brain injury may be due to reduced brain volume, researchers say. In the ...

For quite some time, science has attributed learning difficulties such as dyslexia and language processing disorder to malfunctions in specific areas of the brain. Now however, new research from the ...

Different learning difficulties do not correspond to specific regions of the brain, as previously thought, say researchers. Instead poor connectivity between 'hubs' within the brain is much more ...