BUDAPEST, March 29 (Reuters) - Dogs are able to understand that some words refer to objects in a way that is similar to humans, a small study of canine brain waves has found, offering insight into the ...

By tracking brain activity as people listened to a spoken story, researchers found that the brain builds meaning step by step ...

New research led by academics at Royal Holloway, University of London, published in Developmental Science, suggests that children and adolescents remain excited by learning new words, all the way ...

WordTips first established a list of the 350 most misspelled words in the English language to serve as the foundation for this study. The website then sampled over 2 billion geotagged tweets from ...

Linguists have noticed that many swear words share the same sharp, punchy sounds—hard consonants like “k,” “t,” and “g” that burst out of the mouth rather than flow. When a study examined those sound ...

Researchers have found a new relationship between counting ability of Tsimane' individuals and their ability to perform matching tasks that involve numbers up to about 25. The results suggest that in ...