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 ...

Brain activation patterns for different sensory and emotional aspects of the word 'play.' The numbers to the left of each brain pattern show how strongly the word is associate with each feature. For ...

Special Olympics Texas is encouraging all Texans to stop using the words "retard" and "retarded." In fact, Wednesday is the eighth national Spread the Word to End the Word activation and awareness day ...