Many people also pick up languages simply because they enjoy the challenge. What we rarely think about is how this effort might shape our lives decades later. A new European study suggests that the ...

For years, scientists have gathered evidence that learning and speaking multiple languages changes the brain. But a new study published in Nature Aging suggests those changes may go deeper than anyone ...

March 30, 2011 — Multilingualism does not protect against the onset of Alzheimer's disease (AD) according to an analysis from the Nun study — a longitudinal study of aging and AD — where AD was ...

A new study introduces a multilingualism calculator that quantifies how multilingual a person truly is, offering a clearer alternative to vague labels like “bilingual.” ...

Have you ever wondered whether the language you speak influences the way you see the world? Well, according to a number of studies in psycholinguistics, cognitive psychology and linguistic ...

Encouraging bilingualism at home can have many cognitive benefits, which may be particularly helpful to kids with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), new research from the University of Miami College of ...