How much time does a brain need to learn a new word? A team of Skoltech researchers and their colleagues monitored changes in brain activity associated with learning new words and found that cortical ...

Eight Microsoft interns have developed a new language learning tool that uses the smartphone camera to help adults improve their English literacy by learning the words for the things around them. The ...

Researchers use a computer model to explain how children integrate information during word learning. Children learn a huge number of words in the early preschool years. A two-year-old might be able to ...