Old brains can learn new language tricks.
Using exaggerated computer-generated speech, researchers taught adults to pronounce sounds of foreign languages previously thought impossible to articulate because of speech learning patterns set in the brain at a very young age. Blakeslee S. Old brains can learn new language tricks. Dr. Jay McClelland of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition in Pittsburgh spoke about his research at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society in Washington last week. Not yet published.