UC Berkeley associate professor of Hispanic and Romance linguistics Justin Davidson contributed to a study revealing where in the brain bilingual speakers store language-specific sounds. Davidson, ...

Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco have developed a bilingual brain implant that uses artificial intelligence to help a stroke survivor communicate in Spanish and English for ...

Neuroplasticity is the brain’s ability to build connections within itself, adapting to the surrounding environment. The brain is most plastic in childhood, forming new pathways in reaction to stimuli ...

As a person ages, changes occur in both the body and the brain. Certain areas of the brain shrink and communication between neurons becomes less effective. “Such structural and functional changes ...

Humans are organised into around 200 nations, yet there are roughly 6,000 languages in existence. It therefore seems obvious that bilingualism is much more common than many of us might assume. This is ...

During a presentation this past weekend at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Washington, DC, Judith Kroll, a psychologist at Penn State who studies bilingualism, ...

While federal law requires schools to provide language services for students classified as English learners, states and local districts have broad discretion in the types of education programming to ...

In 2009, I stood in Utrecht presenting research on the bilingual brain at the International Symposium on Bilingualism. This was my great-grandfather Wilhelm's city, the place he'd left more than a ...