A child’s first words mark a big milestone in life, and a topic of great curiosity for science. Now researchers have determined that these early stabs at verbal language are informed by what a baby ...

Visual dictionary Experienced readers recognise whole words in much the same way we recognise a face, according to scientists who have observed the changes in brain scans that occur as a new word is ...

Visual word recognition is a multifaceted process involving the rapid and efficient extraction of letter identities and their spatial arrangement. Integral to this field is the exploration of how the ...

When we learn how to write, our brain does not learn the individual lettering of words - instead it is tuned to remember how the word appears as a whole. That's the finding of a new study that has ...

Psychologists have shown that a baby's most likely first words are based upon their visual experience, laying the foundation for a new theory of infant language learning. Indiana University ...

Using direct neural recordings from the visual word form area, researchers were able to see words that patients read as the patients read them. Reading is a relatively modern and uniquely human skill.