It may seem hopeless to those hearing their child practise their screeching violin scales badly for the hundredth time. But those music lessons are not a waste of time – no matter how tone-deaf the ...

Verbal cues while asleep can boost the memory, at least when it comes to trying to learn new vocabulary and only when you grab a nap right after study time. A new study reveals that it may be easiest ...

WASHINGTON – Two years after vocabulary became part of the Scripps National Spelling Bee for the first time, the integration of testing into the competition remains a work in progress. Participants ...

Children who are better at recognizing and managing emotions tend to become better readers over time—but how does that connection work? A new longitudinal study published in Learning and Individual ...

SMOKING IS associated with an increased risk of poor memory and a decline in reasoning ability in middle age, research published today suggests. The results of the study are considered important ...