Subject 046M, two years old, was seated nervously across from me at the table, his hands clasped tightly together in his lap. He appeared to have caught an incurable case of the squirms. I resisted ...

The way we commonly use color and number words in English makes it unnecessarily difficult for kids to learn the concepts Subject 046M, two years old, was seated nervously across from me at the table, ...

It seems that researchers can't agree on how humans categorize and name colors. So now, in a new study — the most comprehensive of its kind to date — scientists recorded infants' reactions to familiar ...

While the eye can take in hundreds of thousands of different shades and colors and the brain can process them, noting even small differences in shades, the way language is used to describe color ...

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 ...

New research from Northwestern University shows 15-month-old infants can learn words for objects they've never seen. This breakthrough challenges previous assumptions about early language learning ...