New research from Northwestern University shows 15-month-old infants can learn words for objects they've never seen. This ...

As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...

'Atesi' -- what sounds like a word from the Elven language of Lord of the Rings is actually a Vimmish word meaning 'thought'. Scientists have used Vimmish, an artificial language specifically ...

Writing out the same word again and again in cursive may bring back bad memories for some, but handwriting can boost connectivity across brain regions, some of which are implicated in learning and ...

A combined brain-scanning and behavior study has explored dyslexia in 7 & 8-year-old children learning how to read. Dyslexic youngsters were shown to have different activation in the left hemisphere ...