An MIT study finds that children from different socioeconomic backgrounds tend to have different brain patterns associated with reading difficulty.

A new study explains why some people in Latino communities have avoided the COVID vaccine—and what can be done to reverse the trend.

New research clarifies how our brains keep track of sounds we hear to make sense of words.

Researchers looked at Facebook posts to sort out differences in the language people who are lonely and people who have depression use.

People who had surgery to remove half of the brain correctly recognized differences between pairs of words or faces more than 80% of the time.

Linguists have long considered grammar to be the glue of language, and key to how children learn it. But new prose-writing AIs suggest language experience may be more important than grammar.

Edward Gibson and Eric Martinez are among this year's winners of the satiric prize, for explaining what makes legal documents so difficult to comprehend.

People who use assistive devices care about the way they look, feel, and even smell, a new study of user reviews shows.