NEW YORK, NY (IANS) – The brains of polyglots — people who speak five or more languages — work differently when it comes to their native language, said researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of ...

The connections between different regions of the brain responsible for language processing depend on which language you grew up with. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

A study of polyglots found the brain's language network responds more strongly when hearing languages a speaker is more proficient in -- and much more weakly to the speaker's native language. A new ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, March 11 (Reuters) - While most people speak only one language or perhaps two, some are proficient in many. These people are called polyglots. And they are helping to provide insight into ...

Although certain core brain regions are involved in the processing of all languages, these regions show distinct activation patterns during the processing of different languages. The different brain ...

Our ability to store information about familiar objects depends on the connection between visual and language processing regions in the brain, according to a new study. Our ability to store ...

Why is it so easy to hear individual words in your native language, but in a foreign language they run together in one long stream of sound? Researchers from UC San Francisco have begun to answer that ...

Linguists give the lowdown on whether it is possible to forget your native language. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A native ...