Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research shows that computational modeling can predict how bilingual stroke patients will respond to language treatment – and ...

You might not put a lot of thought into what it takes to speak, but speaking keeps your brain busy. In every conversation, multiple regions activate to process sounds, give words meaning and control ...

A few years ago, I wrote two blog posts on multilingual aphasia, that is language and speech impairment in multilinguals due to brain damage. In the first (see here), I reported on a well-known case ...

Capacity of the Catalan and Spanish versions of the Bilingual Aphasia Test to distinguish between healthy aging, mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease. Parallel recovery in a trilingual ...

At Boston University, a team of researchers is working to better understand how language and speech is processed in the brain, and how to best rehabilitate people who have lost their ability to ...

Speech rehabilitation experts can predict how well a patient will recover from aphasia, a disorder caused by damage to the part of the brain responsible for producing language. At Boston University, a ...

Difficulty speaking clearly or understanding language is called aphasia. Its most common cause is stroke, but aphasia also can result from brain injuries or other diseases. (Dreamstime/TNS) You might ...

A few years ago, I wrote two blog posts on multilingual aphasia, that is language and speech impairment in multilinguals due to brain damage. In the first (see here), I reported on a well-known case ...