We all take language for granted, yet we rely upon it throughout our lives in order to perform a range of functions. Imagine how you would accomplish all the things you might do, even in a single day, ...

In their classic 1998 textbook on cognitive neuroscience, Michael Gazzaniga, Richard Ivry, and George Mangun made a sobering observation: there was no clear mapping between how we process language and ...

While we all have language and use it, there is widespread misunderstanding of just what it is and how it operates. It is, David Shariatmadari writes, “a medium that is formed as it is used, a ...