Babies may learn words before their first birthday — but not like older kids do. Experts report that 10-month-old babies can learn new words and usually link those words to interesting objects — even ...

A baby's first year brings incredible change. In just a few months, babies go from cooing and crawling to making sense of language in ways researchers are only starting to understand. One mystery has ...

Best Birds That Talk Budgerigar Also known as the budgie or parakeet, this small bird might be petite, but he is mighty. With an average lifespan of 5–8 years, they are intelligent birds that are ...

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 the first time scientists have identified how a pathway in the brain which is unique to humans allows us to learn new words. For the first time scientists have identified how a pathway in the ...

Researchers have identified that some dogs are "gifted word learners” — pups who know the names of more than 100 toys. In fact, these dogs can learn new words just by eavesdropping. And even if your ...

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 ...