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Toddler and grandfather reading a book and talking to each together.

Language skills stay strong in older adults, even while other cognitive abilities decline

A graphic of the human brain in grey, with different regions highlighted in red, green, and yellow.

Separating logic and language

Would you return a favor? Scientists say it depends on the relationship

Language development in the brain

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Learning with audiobooks

A medical team administers anesthesia to a patient in an operating room.

Three anesthesia drugs all have the same effect in the brain, MIT researchers find

Language processing beyond the neocortex

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Language processing beyond the neocortex

Focused African American and Asian schoolgirls help one another with their assignment in science class at a STEM elementary school. The African American girl is looking at something with a microscope.

Unpacking social intelligence

When it comes to language, context matters

Identifying kids who need help learning to read isn’t as easy as A, B, C