When people practice simple word classification tasks before nodding off -- knowing that a 'cat' is an animal or that 'flipu' isn't found in the dictionary, for example -- their brains will ...

Dogs can understand that certain words refer to specific objects, according to a recent study, suggesting that they may understand words in a similar way to humans. It offers the first evidence of ...

New research challenges the conventional thinking that young children use language just as adults do to help classify and understand objects in the world around them. In a new study involving 4- to ...

STORY: Can dogs understand words for specific objects? A new study says yes - and that dogs picture the object in their minds when they hear its name, much like human beings. This border collie named ...

(CNN) – A new study suggests dogs can understand that certain words refer to specific objects, so they may understand words in a similar way to humans. Researchers said it offers the first evidence of ...