See how sleep helps children try to learn made-up words. To measure the brain’s ability to form completely new memories, researchers teach kids made-up words for novel objects.

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 ...

OK, so your dog can learn how to do "sit" or maybe even "paw" after some training and copious amounts of treats, but some hounds—known as "Gifted Word Learners," or GWLs—are on another level.

Human infants naturally learn new words and their associations, such as how spoons are related to plates because they are ...

To measure the brain’s ability to form completely new memories, researchers teach kids made-up words for novel objects.