Research shows the brain keeps processing language even under anesthesia, shedding light on subconscious cognitive functions during medical procedures.

Some of the most complex cognitive functions are possible because different sides of your brain control them. Chief among them is speech perception, the ability to interpret language. In people, the ...

Neuroscientists found that logical reasoning does not rely on the brain regions involved in language processing.

Multiple regions of the brain engage in fast-moving conversations to understand language, UTHealth Houston researchers have discovered, dispelling a prior school of thought that only one region of the ...

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 ...

Cerebral lateralisation is a cardinal feature of mammalian brain organisation, reflecting the preferential localisation of specific functions in one hemisphere. In humans, language processing is ...

But researchers were concerned about whether this procedure might have other, less desirable effects. What happens when the right and left sides of the cerebral cortex—responsible for an enormous ...