Alzheimer's disease (AD) is on track to become one of the defining public health challenges of our time. Every three seconds, somewhere in the world, someone is diagnosed with dementia, and it's ...

Share or save for quick reference. Teaching a child to read when phonics feels like a foreign language? Been there. And if your kid is still tripping over “cat,” “pin,” or “mud,” these CVC Short Vowel ...

A new study by researchers at Northwestern and Harvard reveals that infants as young as 15 months can infer the meaning of unfamiliar words even when the objects they refer to are not visible. By ...

Summary: Infants as young as 15 months can use language context to infer the meaning of words referring to objects they’ve never seen. Researchers found that when 15-month-olds heard a new word in a ...

The manuscript provides important new insights into the mechanisms of statistical learning in early human development, showing that statistical learning in neonates occurs robustly and is not limited ...

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 ...

Common house cats possess the ability to associate human words with images without prompting or reward, new research conducted by animal scientists at Azabu University in Japan has revealed. This ...

Learning a new language can be a daunting task, but it can also be a rewarding and fulfilling experience. If you're considering learning a new language, why not try learning Irish, or Gaeilge, as it's ...

In this post, I’m excited to share a collection of research-based tips and strategies for learning and remembering new words, enriched by my own experiences as a multilingual learner and a former EFL ...

Sight words are key to literacy learning. Given their educational importance, I’ve dedicated a series of posts to exploring various strategies and tips to facilitate the learning of sight words. This ...