Children with dyslexia often find it difficult to count the number of syllables in spoken words or to determine whether words rhyme. These subtle difficulties are seen across languages with different ...

Nathan Hesselink had never heard any of Radiohead's music — a bit unusual, perhaps, for an ethnomusicologist who spends his life immersed in music and studying the people who make it. But in 2008, the ...

All over the world, parents sing songs and recite rhymes to their young children. Researchers have known for some time that this has a stimulating or calming effect on babies, but it turns out that ...