The AI program was way less cute than a real baby. But like a baby, it learned its first words by seeing objects and hearing words. Some ideas of language learning hold that humans are born with ...

For years, researchers have known that young children pick up words just by being around conversation. Toddlers do not need ...

My four-year-old learned three new words recently: derecho, generator, and cicada. She is old enough and talks so much that I no longer notice every one of her new words like I did during her toddler ...

A new study investigates where toddlers look when they learn new words. It finds that children with larger vocabularies looked quickly towards objects when learning new words. Meanwhile, children who ...

Some dogs can learn new object names by overhearing human conversation, highlighting advanced learning skills also seen in ...

How people work out the meanings of new words has been revealed by researchers, who say this is similar to the way in which young children learn language. The researchers said: ''A lot of what infants ...

As many educators and researchers will attest, there’s no exact science to choosing vocabulary words—no inherent reason the word “detest” is more important to teach than “despise,” or why “compassion” ...

This is not comparable to word learning in children. By around age two, typical English-speaking children learn approximately ...

An AI model identified objects 62% of the time after being trained on video and audio captured by a camera strapped to a toddler’s head. By Mack DeGeurin Published Feb 2, 2024 1:09 PM EST Get the ...

Typical family dogs can understand action words such as ‘sit’, but not words that describe objects. Shany Dror at the ...

My four-year-old learned three new words recently: derecho, generator, and cicada. She is old enough and talks so much that I no longer notice every one of her new words like I did during her toddler ...