(AP) Dan the baboon sits in front of a computer screen. The letters BRRU pop up. With a quick and almost dismissive tap, the monkey signals it is not a word. Correct. Next comes, ITCS. Again, not a ...

The architecture and processes underlying visual word recognition represent some of the most intricate systems in human cognition. The seemingly simple act of reading a word involves not only a ...

— -- Monkey see, monkey read? Baboons can reliably spot four-letter words in experiments, scientists reported on Thursday. The finding points to one of the keys to human reading. Kids learn the ...

WordTips first established a list of the 350 most misspelled words in the English language to serve as the foundation for this study. The website then sampled over 2 billion geotagged tweets from ...

By tracking brain activity as people listened to a spoken story, researchers found that the brain builds meaning step by step ...