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 ...

PARIS, Sept. 12 (UPI) --The brain is active during sleep -- that much was already obvious. We dream in our sleep, talk in our sleep, even swat away tickling feathers in our sleep. But now a new study ...

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 ...

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 unconsciously ...