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 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 ...

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 ...

We start to talk before we can read, so hearing words, and getting familiar with their sounds, is obviously a critical part of learning a language. But in order to read, and especially in order to ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Visual Dictionary web site catalogs photographs of words (from signs to graffiti to tattoos) and makes them searchable by the word they contain. While it's still fairly young, the Visual ...