A global study of 10,000 dogs explores whether pets truly understand and use word buttons to communicate with humans.

We see not just with our eyes, but with our brains. A mosaic of specialized areas in a brain region known as the visual ...

This bold and deeply researched study calls Christians to confront centuries of confusion and rediscover the pure, ...

A lifetime of engaging with language and the written word – including reading books, writing, and learning languages – could ...

Sometimes it’s the living who haunt the dead. A New York primary care doctor redefined the phrase “life after death” after finding that the brain remains active even after one’s heart stops, as ...

Neuroscientists are converging on a detailed picture of how the human brain carves continuous speech into words, drawing on ...

Word of the Day – Schadenfreude: Schadenfreude is trending as searches spike during celebrity scandals and political ...

Speech blurs together unless you know the language; scientists found the brain signal that separates the words ...

Patients in a new study were able to comprehend words that were written but not said aloud. They could write the names of things they saw but not verbalize them. For instance, if a patient in the ...

The study is small, but it's another example of how different bodies have different needs.

A research team at the University of Würzburg has deciphered another aspect of poxviral gene activation. The study reveals a ...

A mystery novel, a history book, and a fantasy epic may have little in common in plot or style. But count the words inside them and a strange regularity appears: many new words show up early, then ...