Some dogs are not just listening for the word “walk.” A small, rare group can quietly monitor human conversations and pick up ...

Some dogs can learn new object names by overhearing human conversation, highlighting advanced learning skills also seen in ...

When we look at a known word, our brain sees it like a picture, not a group of letters needing to be processed. That's the finding from a new study that shows the brain learns words quickly by tuning ...

Children learn language effortlessly and completely voluntarily. They learn new words miraculously fast. A teenager masters about 60,000 words of their mother tongue by the time they finish high ...

For instance, the group’s 2022 study discovered that dogs store key sensory features about their toys—notably what they look ...