We often view the ability to construct and learn a language as a skill set so unique it sets us apart from all other creatures in the animal kingdom. Dogs, in all their unknowing wisdom, make a mess ...

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 ...

Young children learn new words at a tremendous rate. By scanning the brains of sleeping two-year-olds, researchers at the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain found that the hippocampus is activated as ...