In a new article appearing in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, led by Cory Shain and Hope Kean, explore how the human brain shows ...

How do phonemes come to be represented in the brain, and why do so many children with LLI have weak or imprecise phonological representation? An infant does not know which language(s) they will need ...

Different linguistic traits must have appeared at different times, perhaps for different reasons. But which of these “protolanguages” came first? When viewing language as a collection of many distinct ...

A neural network trained on the experiences of a single young child managed to learn one of the core components of language: how to match words to the objects they represent. Human babies are far ...