Researchers found that everyday symbols such as $#% are more memorable than their word counterparts. They hope their findings will aid visual design to improve communication of complex or abstract ...

Made-up words like “clisious” and “smanious” are easier to remember when they sound beautiful. Could the feel of a word shape how we learn languages, sell products and even how languages evolve?

A new study suggests that the phonemic composition of words influences as how beautiful we perceive them to be, and how well ...

In a paper recently published in the journal Nature Human Behavior, researchers from the National Institutes of Health and the University of Chicago use computer-modeling to show that some words are ...

Remember the saying, “Fool’s names and fool’s faces always seen in public places”? Let’s face it, it’s absolutely imperative we communicate by the spoken word or the written word. Thankfully we have a ...

Some uniquely talented dogs accumulate a vocabulary of hundreds of toy names. How do they do it? Young children acquire a large vocabulary because, in addition to quickly learning words, they also ...