Do speakers of different languages build sentence structure in the same way? In a neuroimaging study, scientists recorded the brain activity of participants listening to Dutch stories. In contrast to ...

The frontal lobe of the brain is vital to human consciousness, as well as functions that appear uniquely human, such as spoken language. Frontal lobe damage can lead to a wide variety of symptoms It ...

Scientists have discovered that human language and whale songs have remarkable similarities in the way they are segmented and structured. The study, which looked at eight years of humpback whale ...