Words associate with each other in a manner of intricate clusters^1-3^. Yet the brain capably encodes the complex relations into workable networks^4-7^ such that the onset of a word in the brain ...

Young children learn new words at a tremendous rate. By scanning the brains of sleeping two-year-olds, researchers at the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain found that the hippocampus is activated as ...

A new study finds that there may be a difference between how our brains call up pictures and words. A paper published in the recent issue of Psychophysiology describesdifferences in the brain's ...

Very young children learn words at a tremendous rate. Now researchers have seen how specific brain regions activate as two-year-olds remember newly learned words -- while the children were sleeping.