As people age, many cognitive functions tend to decline. Brain-scanning studies have revealed corresponding changes in the ...

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 ...

A language-specific brain network can be identified even when a person is resting, listening to music, or doing a task unrelated to language. The network is usually concentrated in left frontal 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 ...

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 ...

Background: Preterm children have more language problems than term children. However, it is unknown whether the language problems in these children worsen, are stable, or improve over time. We aimed ...

We all take language for granted, yet we rely upon it throughout our lives in order to perform a range of functions. Imagine how you would accomplish all the things you might do, even in a single day, ...

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 ...