Language

The brain's language centers struggle to access phonetic information

Seeing faces in groups makes them appear more attractive

Male brains have more connections within hemispheres to optimize motor skills, whereas female brains are more connected between hemispheres to combine analytical and intuitive thinking

If you want to catch someone in a lie, you'll raise your odds in the afternoons, as most people are more likely to cheat or lie then as opposed to the morning. Christie Nicholson reports

In multiple languages, a word that sounds a lot like "huh?" signals that the utterer needs to have verbal information repeated or restated. Karen Hopkin reports.

The dangerous psychology of texting while driving

Children in rural Ethiopia are teaching themselves to read with Android tablets

E-readers and tablets are becoming more popular as such technologies improve, but reading on paper still has its advantages

The types of books we read may affect how we relate to others

One technique for improving social skills seems to help newly diagnosed young children

Many researchers have suggested that differences in students’ learning styles may be as important as ability, but empirical evidence is thin

In an alternative to Chomsky’s "Universal Grammar," scientists explore language’s fundamental design constraints