Two Spanish psychologists and a German neurologist have recently shown that the brain that activates when a person learns a new noun is different from the part used when a verb is learnt. The ...

For more than 60 years, scientists have known that a strip of neural tissue that runs ear-to-ear along the brain’s surface orchestrates most voluntary movement, from raising a fork to kicking a ball.

Post written by François Grosjean. In 1978, researchers Martin L. Albert and Loraine K. Obler wrote a highly influential book, The Bilingual Brain, which gave great momentum to the ...