People have a unique anatomy that supports our ability to produce complex language.

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.

Researchers map the mental semantic systems of podcast listeners.

Visit the remote Turkish village where the musical language that residents use to communicate across valleys is elucidating how language is processed in the brain.

Communication based on whistles offers a “natural experiment” for studying how the brain processes language.

The long-sought genetic link between handedness and language lateralization patterns in the brain is turning out to be illusory.

Neurons in new brains and old

Researchers find that Wernicke’s area, thought to be the seat of language comprehension in the human brain for more than a century, is not.