By studying the vocal behavior of 20 baby bats from birth to weaning, researchers have identified striking similarities between how young humans and bats develop communication skills.

Chirp dialects appear to be enforced by the colony’s queen, but scientists aren’t sure how. 

When submitting manuscripts to Western journals, authors face issues that go beyond language barriers.

Male researchers are more likely to describe their work in publications using positive superlatives than their female colleagues are, a habit tied to more citations.

Speaking a common language is key to a well-integrated team, but guidance is sparse on what—if anything—principal investigators should do about it.

A small study finds that patients who had half their brains removed to treat epilepsy have stronger neural networks than controls, perhaps explaining how they can retain language and cognition skills.

Neural activity associated with the meaning of words is independent of whether those words are read or listened to, a study finds.

The original experiment found brain activity as measured by fMRI was tied to particular genetic variants.

A small study reports that, among children who had left-hemisphere damage as newborns, the complementary region of the right hemisphere appears to compensate and protect language development.

Drastic dietary changes during the agricultural revolution altered the configuration of the human bite, paving the way for new sounds in spoken language, a new study finds.

In an email, biostatistics professor Megan Neely warned students of “unintended consequences” from speaking their native language on campus. She has since left a leadership post.

Regardless of parental income and education, children who engage in more two-way conversation with their parents learn better.

Contrary to earlier results, FOXP2 did not undergo a “selective sweep” as humans developed language, a study finds.

Meet some of the people featured in the July/August 2018 issue of The Scientist.

Evolutionary changes in both the vocal tract and the brain were necessary for humans’ remarkable gift of gab.

The primate was famous for her ability to communicate with humans.

A decades-old neurological procedure developed under unique and difficult conditions in postwar Japan remains critical to the treatment of epilepsy.

His first love was dance, but Erich Jarvis has long courted another love—understanding how the brain learns vocalization.

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