The human brain responds to the sounds of both familiar and unfamiliar languages in a similar way, according to research published in Nature. The findings improve our understanding of how speech is ...
How do babies learn their parents’ language—or languages? Can they tell dialects apart? I visited Czech psycholinguist Nikola Paillereau’s Prague lab to learn more.
Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy ...
Two new studies published in the journals Neuron00792-5) and Naturereveal how the human brain transforms a continuous stream ...
NYT Wordle hint and answer today: Today's Wordle is a fantastic word, but it's one of those that can easily trip you up if your starting guesses are consonant-heavy. It's November 8, 2025, and Wordle ...
Why is it so easy to hear individual words in your native language, but in a foreign language they run together in one long stream of sound?