Sound symbolism–where words' sounds impact their meanings–may be an important strategy for word learning.

Tracking and giving feedback on how much parents talk with their babies helps support language growth.

People with aphantasia cannot deliberately bring to mind mental images, shedding light on diverse cognitive processes.

Given the clear importance of language skills for lifelong outcomes, it is critical to set children up early for language success.

Children may hear a lot of words when interacting with screens, but to learn language children need to interact with physical objects.

Wordle isn’t likely to make you smarter or ward off brain aging. But it may give you a dose of complex cognition and social interaction.

Understanding sarcasm involves recognizing others' thoughts and emotions, empathizing, and considering two things to be simultaneously true.

Playful activities that involve choice, active engagement and moments of delight are what children need this summer during the pandemic.

Early experiences developing positive connections and language set the stage for home reading to start children on the path to literacy.

New research shows that there’s much in a name: people will use the sounds in names to infer someone’s physical and personality traits.