Guillaume Thierry is supported by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) under the NAWA Chair Programme (PPN/PRO/2020/1/00006) and he is also affiliated with the Faculty of English at ...

Our ability to hear and understand a second language becomes more and more difficult with age, but the adult brain can be retrained to pick up foreign sounds more easily again. This finding, reported ...

Sometimes science comes up with associations that initially sound surprising, but which make more sense the more you think about them: like a link between having a lower IQ and also having difficulty ...

A small stimulator placed in the outer ear can activate the vagus nerve using unnoticeable electrical pulses to stimulate one of the nerve’s nearby branches. New research by neuroscientists at the ...

UC San Francisco researchers are reporting a detailed account of how speech sounds are identified by the human brain, offering an unprecedented insight into the basis of human language. The finding, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. “Although the ability to copy sounds from conspecifics is wide ...

People who are deaf can learn to talk. Some deaf people may choose not to communicate using the spoken word. Instead, they prefer to use American sign language (ASL), a nonverbal language. Read on to ...

Fluency in a foreign language is often thought to be about speaking quickly and using advanced vocabulary. However, researchers reveal that speakers who use common, everyday expressions sound more ...