Introduction: The Fatigue of 'Rote Memorization' and the Loop of Failure 'I want to start learning a new foreign language, ...

Research shows that the best linguists process unfamiliar foreign speech sounds more like non-speech sounds ...

Research increasingly suggests that language learning and bilingualism can offer cognitive benefits – including for older ...

Most advice for learning a new language comes down to practice: more listening, more classes, more time around native ...

New Baycrest research reveals that the brain remembers what we see and what we hear in different ways. Visual memories tend to retain fine details, while auditory memories are more likely to preserve ...

Short-term memories are thought to be formed deep within the brain in structures such as the hippocampus, but little is known about how and where memory-related information is kept in the brain or the ...

Humans and other animals gradually learn what sounds or other sensory cues in their surroundings are meaningful or potentially threatening. Via a process known as habituation, they gradually learn to ...

Even when hearing a human voice, scientists say some people’s brains don’t immediately treat new sounds as “language.” ...