The Editors at Communications Psychology, Nature Communications, and Scientific Reports invite submissions providing neurocognitive perspectives on language comprehension. Communicating through spoken ...

Our brains have a remarkable ability to take a mix of sounds and translate them into meaning. A team of scientists monitored the brain activity of people as they listened to English sentences. Right ...

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 ...

As if wrinkled skin and stiff joints were not enough reason to dread getting older, research also indicates that our cognitive skills decline with age, with potential deficits including less efficient ...

Prediction has been touted as a “canonical cortical computation” [i], and essential for basic linguistic processes [ii]. Naturally, the efficiency with which the brain can implement its various forms ...

Corrected: A previous version of this story misstated the university where Tanya Wright is an associate professor. She works at Michigan State University. Matthews, Mo. What do you do when hear a word ...

While necessary, the two essential components of reading comprehension—decoding and language comprehension—are not sufficient to improve outcomes in international reading assessments such as Programme ...

Spread the love“`html When diving into the world of literacy and education, two terms frequently emerge: fluency and ...