When it comes to healthy brain aging, advice usually includes eating well, staying active and maintaining social connections.

A vast study suggests that being multilingual can slow down cognitive ageing. Speaking multiple languages could slow down ...

Speaking more than one language can slow down the brain's aging and lower risks linked to accelerated aging.

Scientists have spent the last five years observing sperm whale communication and behaviors using tags, buoys and drones. They’ve finally begun to learn how whales use calls for communication.

Despite the vast diversity of human languages, specific grammatical patterns appear again and again. A new study reveals that ...

Can learning another language help you stay younger for longer? Far beyond its cultural and social value, speaking multiple ...

In a language study exploring how people learn correct word use, researchers at Princeton University and the University of Illinois found that language learning goes well beyond simple imitation, and ...

Amanda Seidl (standing), a Purdue associate professor of speech, language and hearing sciences who studies language acquisition, found that touch can influence how infants learn language. Her research ...

At Connecticut College, students explore intercultural communication skills as an integral part of liberal learning. All students are expected to study another language for at least two semesters; ...

A new study study reveals that an infant’s brain may remember a language, even if the child has no idea how to speak a word of it. The finding comes from a new study performed by a team of researchers ...