So Takagi and her colleagues tested cats' language abilities, with an experimental design that has previously been used to ...

The researchers in this study set out to apply these findings in children, to see if they feel the same way about learning ...

Cats can associate human words with images—possibly better than human babies—new research out of Japan reveals.

But between the ages of around two and five, the number of words they know absolutely rockets, and they'll start sticking them all together into sentences like 'we go to the park'. All kids learn ...

Watch the video below to find out what happens in your baby's brain when they hear words over and over and over again. Imagine having to learn a whole new language in just a few years, it's not ...

That’s why these problems can be a challenge for English learners or those who struggle to read or have a learning disability. If students spend all their time trying to understand the words ...

Targeted memory reactivation improved memory performance of easy-to-learn words, but had no effect of difficult-to-learn words, which suggests a critical role of word learning difficulty in sleep ...

She said, “I was very surprised, because that meant cats were able to eavesdrop on human conversations and understand words without any special reward-based training.” Previou ...

Previously, we didn’t know whether cats could learn human words in the same way as dogs, so Takagi and her team carried out an experiment that has been used to study language development in 14 ...

So far, it has been unclear whether cats learn other human words in the same way dogs do. In a bid to find out more, Mr Takagi and his team designed an experiment using methods previously employed ...