The AI program was way less cute than a real baby. But like a baby, it learned its first words by seeing objects and hearing words. Some ideas of language learning hold that humans are born with ...

THERE GOES MY HERO: Zaner-Bloser, a Columbus, Ohio-based literacy instructional materials provider, has purchased Word Heroes, a K-2 supplemental literacy program. Founded in 1888, Zaner-Bloser ...

Dogs with a special ability to understand human language can learn as many as 12 new words per week – and usually still remember them after a two-month lapse. So far, researchers have identified about ...

Some skills you don’t need past graduation: geometry, cursive, the ability to dissect a frog. But memorization is not one of them. Far beyond your final spelling bee, your memory either saves you from ...