“This provides an important change in our understanding of language comprehension in the brain,” Marek-Marsel Mesulam, lead study author and director of Northwestern’s Cognitive Neurology and ...

Three key skills—academic language, perspective taking, and complex reasoning—can predict how well a student does with the kind of deep reading comprehension required in secondary school and beyond, ...

Reading ability among young people is declining, and it is the most vulnerable students who are hardest hit, according to speech therapist and researcher Anna Eva Hallin. In her research, she aims to ...

Action and perception are functionally linked in the brain, but a hotly debated question is whether perception and comprehension of stimuli depend on motor circuits. Brain language mechanisms are ...