Recognizing spoken words is a split-second competition, and a new study defines how people approach that competition and ultimately recognize words. The researchers identified three main approaches by ...

Dogs may have better linguistic talents than scientists have previously given them credit for. The ability to recognize specific word sounds in human speech is a difficult task since small differences ...

Let's play Obfuscation, the little game where I give you some of the definitions of a common word, and you recognize the word -- or not. Today's word has five letters. It can be a noun, verb, ...

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 ...

This is an important contribution that largely confirms prior evidence that word recognition - a cornerstone of development - improves across early childhood and is related to vocabulary growth. This ...

"The desire for recognition is a slave desire." F.Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil The issue of recognition in business or school remains a constant concern. The child needs to feel recognized in order ...

Who here knew that a verb meaning to steady or reinforce using a rope, chain, rod or wire was "guy," our Nov. 6 word? This week's word is a verb. It has six letters. From a French word meaning to draw ...