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 ...

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 ...

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A new study explains how a parakeet's brain helps it to mimic human words. By recording for the first time the brain activity of parakeets as they made sounds, a research team at NYU Grossman School ...