You know when your baby is happy because they coo at you. When your baby is unhappy, they let you know with a loud wail. You may have even noticed that your baby’s cry sounds different from time to ...

When we read, it’s very easy for us to tell individual words apart: In written language, spaces are used to separate words from one another. But this is not the case with spoken language – speech is a ...

A neural network trained on the experiences of a single young child managed to learn one of the core components of language: how to match words to the objects they represent. Human babies are far ...