An MIT study finds the brains of polyglots expend comparatively little effort when processing their native language.

Study finds language-processing difficulties are an indicator — more so than memory loss — of amnestic mild cognitive impairment.

Team-based targeted projects, multi-mentor fellowships ensure that scientists studying social cognition, behavior, and autism integrate multiple perspectives and approaches to pressing questions.

MIT researchers introduce a method that uses artificial intelligence to automate the explanation of complex neural networks.

A new study finds that language regions in the left hemisphere light up when reading uncommon sentences, while straightforward sentences elicit little response.

People of a remote Amazonian society who learned Spanish as a second language began to interpret colors in a new way, an MIT study has found.

It’s not easy to parse young children’s words, but adults’ beliefs about what children want to communicate helps make it possible, a new study finds.

In new research, MIT linguists explore how human language handles leaps from the here and now.

Project leaders at the MIT Language Acquisition Lab say their research could shed new light on the nature of language learning.

A new study shows lawyers find simplified legal documents easier to understand, more appealing, and just as enforceable as traditional contracts.