A study has found there is no difference in the time it takes people from different countries to read and process different languages. A study led by the University of Southampton has found there is ...

How do we know that certain combinations of letters have certain meanings? Reading and spelling are complex processes, involving several different areas of the brain, but researchers have now ...

Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work covers anything from archaeology and the environment to technology and culture. Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work ...

Spanish is the national language of Peru, but close to half a million Peruvians in the vast Amazon jungle areas speak only primitive native tongues and have no written languages. This block to mass ...

We’re not born with the brain circuitry we need for reading. We have to be taught. Specifically, beginning readers learn to sound out words by matching what they see to what they say. As reading ...

After his indictment last week, Donald Trump announced on Truth Social, “These Thugs and Radical Left Monsters have just INDICATED the 45th President of the United States of America.” We know he meant ...

F. Deniz et al., “The representation of semantic information across human cerebral cortex during listening versus reading is invariant to stimulus modality,” J Neurosci, 39:7722–36, 2019. Researchers ...

It is one of the more common complaints of schoolchildren. English spelling is a senseless quagmire of silent letters and inconsistent relationships – while those who studied French at school will ...