Language

How the words we use have evolved over the past 175 years

The magazine is more widely cited than the King James Version of the Bible by the Oxford English Dictionary

We signal our intention to speak or pause for a reply by where we direct our eyes

Volunteers taking an "implicit bias" test who were unlikely to associate images of women with leadership titles like executive or president were far less likely to vote for a woman in a race against a man of equal qualification

Careful recordings of mouse interactions find that females vocalize, overturning the long-held view that only males sing during courtship

Rapid fluctuations in volume—mimicked by sirens—trigger the brain’s fear centers

A leading researcher talks about what has been learned about how children learn language

Research shows that some consonants evoke certain shapes no matter what language you speak

Hip-hop artists understand what our ears forgive

Can neuroscience provide unique insights to help struggling children growing up in lower income families?

In fascinating study involving synesthesia, people make good guesses at meanings of foreign words

Infants seemed to be able to differentiate between two different "D" sounds in Hindi—but only when their tongue movements weren't blocked by a teething device. Christopher Intagliata reports