Neurolinguistics examines the relationship between language and the brain. It explores how different areas of the brain, like Broca's area and Wernicke's area, are involved in language production and comprehension. Researchers study how the brain represents a first and second language, whether they have separate or shared representations, and how individual learner differences influence second language learning. Learning processes like practice and forming stimulus-response associations, as well as factors like motivation, aptitude, age, gender and personality affect how the brain learns a second language.