Comparative studies on brain asymmetry date back to the 19th century but then largely
disappeared due to the assumption that lateralization is uniquely human. Since the …

Statistical structure abounds in language. Human infants show a striking capacity for using
statistical learning (SL) to extract regularities in their linguistic environments, a process …

Learning a new language requires the use of extensive neural networks and can represent
a powerful tool to reorganize brain neuroplasticity. In this study, we analyze how a 4 months …

The large majority of studies shows that girls develop their language skills faster than boys
in the first few years of life. Are girls born with this advantage in language development? The …

Music impacting on speech processing is vividly evidenced in most reports involving
professional musicians, while the question of whether the facilitative effects of music are …

Growing evidence suggests that posterior cerebellar lobe contributes to social perception in
healthy adults. However, they know little about how this process varies across age and with …

Artificial language studies have demonstrated that learners are able to segment individual
word-like units from running speech using the transitional probability information. However …

Learning a new language in adulthood is increasingly common and among the most difficult
tasks attempted by adults. Adult language learners thus offer an excellent window into the …

It is commonly thought that phonological learning is different in young children compared to
adults, possibly due to the speech processing system not yet having reached full native …

Individuals with developmental language impairment can show deficits into adulthood. This
suggests that neural networks related to their language do not normalize with time. We …