In 2007, a pioneering study by Canadian researchers Ellen Bialystok, Fergus Craik and Morris Freedman obtained results that were relayed around the world (see here). It concerned the development of ...

Assistant Professor of Languages and Applied Linguistics Ariel Chan is challenging outdated assumptions about bilingualism through her work at the intersection of neuroscience and sociolinguistics.

Rett syndrome is a rare neurological condition that disrupts physical and linguistic development, affecting around one in 10,000 women and even fewer men. For decades, researchers assumed that people ...

Affecting more than one in a hundred children, autism spectrum disorder is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders. It has a particular impact on social interaction, including difficulties ...

Shortly after Kathy Jones relocated to California, the retired professor decided she needed to learn to speak Spanish. "When I moved to San Diego, I would see all these young kids, mostly Latino kids, ...

Neuroplasticity is the brain's ability to build connections within itself, adapting to the surrounding environment. The brain is most plastic in childhood, forming new pathways in reaction to stimuli ...

Last month, the Boulder Valley School District announced an expansion of its continuing efforts to create an aggressive K-12 “bilingual pathway.” The efforts will appear this fall at Lafayette’s ...

There are a million different ways to be bilingual. Gerd Altmann/Pixabay, CC BY-SA It’s estimated that half the world’s population is bilingual, and two-thirds of the world’s children grow up in an ...