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 ...

Is it possible to spot personality dysfunction from someone's everyday word use? My colleagues and I have conducted research that suggests you can, and often sooner than you might expect.

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 ...

In each sentence below, words or phrases that represent major sentence elements appear randomly in different colors. These sentence elements include SUBJECTS (S), VERBS (V), and OBJECTS (O). For each ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. When it comes to using “big data” to analyze the patterns of society, ...

Scientists created fake words to test if sound affects memory. Result: people remembered pleasant-sounding words twice as often as harsh ones.