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 ...

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 ...

"Under the right conditions, some dogs present behaviors strikingly similar to those of young children," lead scientist, Dr. Shany Dror, said Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE ...

Most dog owners know the thrill of saying a favorite word and watching ears perk up instantly. New research suggests some dogs may be doing something even more impressive, picking up new object words ...

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 ...

Where do you see the word learning research in bilingual infants going in the future? The studies we have just discussed are inspired by the work of Dr. Janet Werker and her colleagues (see here), who ...