The Scripps National Spelling Bee provides participants with a study guide containing 4,000 words. While that may sound ...

Neuroscientists say the brain's auditory lexicon, a catalog of verbal language, is actually located in the front of the primary auditory cortex, not in back of it -- a finding that upends a ...

Researchers use MEG imaging to show that the brain reactivates "forgotten" memories, but they only reach consciousness if they pulse at a specific rhythm.

But too many American school children don’t comprehend well on reading tests because they don’t have brain words. Many schools stopped teaching brain words— that is to say, spelling —about three ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece discusses advances in brain-computer interfaces. In 1999, I defined regenerative medicine as the ...

The days of having a dictionary on your bookshelf are numbered. But that’s OK, because everyone already walks around with a dictionary — not the one on your phone, but the one in your head. Just like ...

The timing of our brain waves shapes how we perceive our environment. We are more likely to perceive events when their timing coincides with the timing of relevant brain waves. Lead scientist Sanne ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Margot’s Word Brain Meet Margot, the new video game queen of word play! Margot has devised a set of six fiendish and compelling word-based puzzles to test ...