Aphasia affects the speech, language processing and reading skills of about 2 million people in the United States, according to the American Stroke Association. The communication disorder occurs most ...

The acquisition of language is a multifaceted process that extends well beyond deliberate instruction. Recent studies indicate that implicit learning—whereby individuals unconsciously absorb the ...

New research from scientists around the globe has produced the strongest evidence to date that there are two separate cognitive systems. Three unrelated studies from March of 2014 offer new clues to ...

Ecological rationality results from matching decision strategies to appropriate environmental structures, but how does the matching happen? We propose that people learn the statistical structure of ...

This study investigated the effectiveness of providing L1 explicit information (EI) with practice for making more accurate and faster interpretations of L2 French Imparfait (IMP). Two treatments were ...

When the human mind drifts away from a specific task, it may actually improve the ability to absorb hidden patterns in the environment. A new study suggests that this mental wandering facilitates a ...