Researchers know that similar brain regions become active in response to the semantic content, or meaning, of language, whether it is read or listened to. But brain-imaging studies haven’t had the ...

Neurotransmitters in the human brain are released during the processing of the emotional content of language, revealing how language influences emotions, decisions, and behavior.

A recent study from the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, which appears in Imaging Neuroscience, shows how interests can ...

New evidence indicates that the brain’s characteristic rhythmic patterns play a crucial role in information processing.

The human brain, as the seat of mental life ... It also appears to be especially important for processing non-literal aspects of language, such as metaphors. While each hemisphere has certain ...

Do speakers of different languages build sentence structure in the same way? In a neuroimaging study, scientists recorded the brain activity of participants listening to Dutch stories. In contrast to ...