Oral-language development has been crowded out, and children—particularly multilingual learners—are paying the price. In my experience teaching multilingual learners, I saw the unfortunate lack of ...

Discover how toddlers’ vocabulary development can thrive in multilingual environments without hindering their language skills.

In "The God Test," Robert Wright considers an evolutionary leap in which human consciousness becomes infused with AI.

An international VOCAL initiative published in Digital Biomarkers establishes first standardized taxonomy for vocal ...

A University of Houston psychologist has received a $2.8 million grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to lead the first randomized clinical trial testing whether a ...

Riding a bike, reading a book or folding laundry while watching TV can feel effortless, almost like your brain does it on ...

The cross-cultural study monitored 8 to 10 month old infants using electroencephalography (EEG) as they listened to novel ...

Researchers have found that being multilingual may delay dementia diagnoses and that the brains of people who spoke two or ...

Do AI models understand the language that they produce? To help answer this question and elucidate the mechanisms of language acquisition more generally, researchers at the Okinawa Institute of ...

Smartphones, online learning, generative AI: The way we read has changed more in the last decade than in the previous century. So what do we actually know about what reading does for the mind? In his ...

As intelligence itself becomes privatised by big tech, allowing your intellectual faculties to wither in service of inane bots seems a dangerous move Long before the age of multi-billion-dollar AI ...

A new study is the first to show that two of our most sophisticated cognitive functions, using and understanding language and being able to sense how other people feel, have distinct origins in the ...