Cat’s fast language acquisition process differs from how dogs learn words, often requiring training and rewards. However, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The best way to spark a discussion about a math topic in a classroom can be unpopular with many students: solving word problems. Word problems often either come too late in a lesson or are disconn ...

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 ...