Sometimes life, with the aid of an unrelenting news cycle, can feel like an exercise in parsing out the particular kind of bad we are experiencing. Are we anxious or depressed, lonely or stressed? Tim ...

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Children learn language effortlessly and completely voluntarily. They learn new words miraculously fast. A teenager masters about 60,000 words of their mother tongue by the time they finish high ...

Young children learn new words at a tremendous rate. By scanning the brains of sleeping two-year-olds, researchers at the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain found that the hippocampus is activated as ...