SOUTH BEND, Ind., Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Babies are highly attuned to communication and motivated to interact -- and they're great listeners, U.S. researchers say. Psychologists at the University of Notre ...

Word patterns that stir emotion and rouse our reason are powerful. They do change us (Waldman, 2012). When we encounter something that interests us, delights us, or disgusts us, short-term ...

During the first year of life, when babies spend so much time listening to language, they're actually tracking word patterns that will support their process of word- learning that occurs between the ...

As words can be the soul's window, scientists are learning to peer through it: Computerized text analysis shows that psychopathic killers make identifiable word choices -- beyond conscious control -- ...

Small and 'invisible' words like 'a', 'the' and 'it' appear in a similar pattern across most narratives ranging from Dickens to Spielberg - forming a blueprint for storytelling, a study has found.