Back in the late 90s a team at the University of Kentucky performed a series of long-term studies on nuns. And these studies have uncovered some surprising clues for possible Alzheimer’s risk. One of ...

Higher exposure to speech from caregivers facilitates infant brain development and improves long-term language progress. The study was published in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. For the study, ...

Learning a new language is more than just acquiring the ability to communicate in another tongue; it’s a profound journey that expands your cognitive horizons, fundamentally altering the way your ...

A strong ability in languages may help reduce the risk of developing dementia, says a new study. The research examined the health outcomes of 325 Roman Catholic nuns who were members of the Sisters of ...

If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

Research designed to understand the effect of text messaging on language found that texting has a negative impact on people's linguistic ability to interpret and accept words. The study, conducted by ...

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. AI language models seem to get more sophisticated by the day, prompting questions of when they will ...

Human language is one of the most distinctive capabilities of our species, yet its origin remains an unresolved mystery. A recent genetic analysis suggests that the linguistic ability of human beings ...