Brain scans show a spot in the cerebellum attuned specifically to words, expanding on studies that point to the region's importance for language.

Becoming a confident reader is a process that has a lot more to it than acquiring knowledge of letters and sounds. Fundamentally, a sense of ownership, interest ...

It's a test of rhythm and timing. Viral videos of the "Say The Word on Beat" challenge are spreading across social media. Videos posted online show players hilariously attempting to say words that ...

Arabic is one of the world’s most widely spoken languages with at least 400 million speakers, including 200 million native speakers and 200 million to 250 million non-native speakers. Modern Standard ...

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The Lede Reporting and commentary on what you need to know today. This way of perceiving social reality—and particularly a person’s reading life—may seem inane, even deranged. But performative reading ...

Hollowed out. That’s how I frequently described West Virginia University during the nine years I worked there before leaving this summer. There was a library, but it bought fewer and fewer books. The ...

Language is ever-evolving, with new words springing up from a variety of places. Some are borrowed from other languages (“karaoke”), others are two words blended together (“doomscrolling”), and some ...

Popular internet slang terms like "skibidi," "delulu" and "tradwife" are now recognized as words in the Cambridge Dictionary. The dictionary, which is published by Cambridge University Press and ...

People with paralysis can now have their thoughts turned into speech just by imagining talking in their heads. While brain-computer interfaces can already decode the neural activity of people with ...

A key discovery about the impact of stroke on a person's ability to read reveals why a deficit occurs – a finding that presents a possible opportunity for new therapeutic strategies to help people ...

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t urgent questions. Reading was an ...