Humans are known to make mental associations between various real-world stimuli and concepts, including colors. For example, ...

New research shows that 15-month-old infants can understand words for unseen objects, revealing how babies learn through ...

Reading together with Eliana's father Alexander Ayling soon became a family activity very early on and one that has stuck. "Now, Eliana reads back to us in her own little language," Rad said. Rad's ...

Infants as young as 15 months can use language context to infer the meaning of words referring to objects they’ve never seen.

While chatting with PEOPLE, Katie Couric raved about her 13-month-old grandson Jay. During the conversation, Couric, whose grandson's name already has a special connection to her late husband, shared ...

Human language allows us to learn new words for things we've never witnessed directly. We do this seamlessly, for example, in ...