Language Processing

MIT associate professor Evelina Fedorenko studies the brain's language processing regions: how they arise, how they're affected by different kinds of input, and how each contributes to language comprehension.

A first-of-a-kind AI system enables a person with paralysis to communicate in two languages

Psycholinguist Giosuè Baggio sheds light on the thrilling, evolving field of neurolinguistics, where neuroscience and linguistics meet.

Although the brain is divided into two halves, it is not exactly a mirror image. Some functions are processed more on the left side, others more on the right. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences and Forschungszentrum Juelich, together with an international team of neuroscientists, have now discovered heritable underpinnings of brain asymmetry—and—how much we share with…

I barreled into the world — a precipitous birth, the doctors called it — at a New York City hospital in the dead of night. In my first few hours of life...

Researchers at MIT are investigating the brain of a woman, known by her initials EG, with a missing temporal lobe.

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Researchers report that two seemingly opposing theories of language processing are both correct. The study shows that greater left-brain asymmetry can predict both better performance and average performance on a foundational measure of reading ability, depending on whether analysis is conducted over the whole brain or in specific regions.

Too busy or lazy to read Melville's Moby Dick or Tolstoy's Anna Karenina? That's OK. Whether you read the classics, or listen to them instead, the same cognitive and emotional parts of the brain are likely to be stimulated. And now, there's a map to prove it. UC Berkeley neuroscientists have created interactive maps that can predict where different categories of words activate the brain. Their latest map is focused…

MIT cognitive neuroscientist Evelina Fedorenko will receive a 2025 Troland Research Award for her groundbreaking contributions toward understanding the language network in the human brain.

Language processing happens at speeds significantly faster than it takes to speak one word aloud.

In a new study involving a group of polyglots, the brain activity of the participants was monitored using a method called functional magnetic resonance...

Sentences with greater linguistic complexity are most likely to fire up a key brain language processing center, according to an MIT study that employed an artificial language network.

Researchers identified the brain's verbal language catalog, or auditory lexicon, in an unexpected location: the front of the primary auditory cortex, not its back.

Growing up in two multilingual cultures inspired Saima Malik-Moraleda to delve into the mysteries of language processing.

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In the largest brain imaging study of its kind, MIT and Harvard neuroscientists have found surprisingly few links between white matter structure and reading ability in children.

Combined storytelling and movement lessons delivered by teachers can improve language and gross-motor skills in young children, according to a new study by psychology and sport science experts at Nottingham Trent University and Coventry University.

Researchers of the HSE Centre for Language and Brain have investigated the impact of both auditory and visual noise on semantic processing during reading to determine if it results in a more superficial reading style that emphasizes the meanings of individual words over connections between them in a sentence.

The connections between different regions of the brain responsible for language processing depend on which language you grew up with.