*A new study published in Developmental Science suggests prenatal brain growth may influence early childhood language ...

UNIGE scientists have discovered that children with autism exhibit different brain patterns depending on their language ...

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 ...

The maturation of the auditory-language brain network begins before birth, driven by gene-environment interactions. We investigated the association between familial and environmental factors and the ...

Infants born deaf or hard of hearing show adverse changes in how their brains organize and specialize, but exposure to sound and language may help them develop more normally, according to new research ...

A new study found that the leading environmental factor influencing brain structure and function is the socioeconomic status ...

Parents want to support their child's development, but many aren't sure what works. Here are five common reading myths and ...

Researchers at Stanford University played voice recordings of preemies’ mothers reading stories to them to find out whether it affected how their brains developed. The team observed changes in the ...

Language experiences influence later cognitive development, but how they shape brain organization remains unclear. We investigated four groups of participants who differed in their early linguistic ...

Valeria Vinogradova, a researcher at HSE University, together with British colleagues, studied how language proficiency affects cognitive processing in deaf adults. The study showed that higher ...

Source: spass/bigstockphoto What happens when 40 percent of a generation cannot function effectively at school? Signs are emerging that this may happen with the children who were 0 to 6 years old ...