"Bend your ear." "Grasping at straws." "Kick the bucket." English is filled with figurative language that makes meaning by evoking physical actions of the human body. During the past decade, a number ...

Language comprehension involves the prediction of upcoming linguistic units across multiple timescales. However, how this prediction process is hierarchically implemented in the human brain remains ...

Through conversation, humans engage in a complex process of alternating speech production and comprehension to communicate. The neural mechanisms that underlie these complementary processes through ...

While kids can pick up new languages at a rapid clip, we adults often struggle to remember the word for fork three months into French class. Historically, this age-related mismatch in language ...

While necessary, the two essential components of reading comprehension—decoding and language comprehension—are not sufficient to improve outcomes in international reading assessments such as Programme ...