Researchers identify a specialized "satellite" language network in the cerebellum, offering new insights into how the brain processes communication and potential treatments for aphasia.

Language sites in the cortex of the brain vary among patients. Language mapping while the patient is awake is an intraoperative technique designed to minimize language deficits associated with ...

In a study designed to differentiate why some stroke patients recover from aphasia and others do not, investigators have found that a compensatory reorganization of language function to right ...

(Based on a speech delivered at the BCIS Language Awards Ceremony 2023) The Bandaranaike Center for International Studies (BCIS) has been offering language-teaching programmes alongside its ...

According to some neuroscientists the linguistic and the motor systems are strictly “tied up”. That is to say, for instance, that to understand the word “drinking” our brain sets in motion the same ...

These are individual scans of two healthy controls and two individuals with a left-hemisphere (LH) perinatal stroke. The orange/yellow activation shows the normal language areas of the left hemisphere ...

One of the most persistent neuroscience myths (neuromyth) is that the "left brain" is universally the seat of language and logical reasoning; while the "right brain" facilitates creativity and ...

Damage to the brain’s left side often undermines language abilities. Occasionally, so does right-brain damage. Still, a lucky few individuals can suffer injury to either side and retain their verbal ...