A new paper published in Progress in Neurobiology reveals that language significantly influences human thinking, challenging previous beliefs. Researchers from the Brain Language Laboratory at the ...

Language is a beautifully intricate system that allows us to express our thoughts, emotions, and experiences—things that would be incommunicable and senseless otherwise. It serves as a bridge between ...

Post written by François Grosjean. Have you ever spoken with people who know sign language, such as American Sign Language (ASL), or who are learning it (see here)? Have you noticed how their hands ...

Another entry for the ever-expanding category of "the brain is a very strange place" posts. A paper in PNAS suggests that what we call a color may influence how we perceive it. The image below shows a ...

Among the many ways you can define language differences, one of the easiest is by the use of tone. For some languages (like English), the differences between words that are pronounced similarly has to ...

For many Hispanics, language is an important part of their identity. Not only does it give them the opportunity to connect back to their heritage, it’s also what allows them to connect to Latinos from ...

How do you use body language to influence someone? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Answer ...

MAUREEN CAVANAUGH (Host): I'm Maureen Cavanaugh, and you're listening to These Days on KPBS. The history of the ‘almost lost’ language of Ladino is important to my next guest, both culturally and ...