Psychologist Greg Simpson was studying Korean with the help of a graduate student, a Korean native, when a thought struck him. “You don’t have spelling bees, do you?” he asked her. He had to explain ...

Plato's dialogue Cratylus begins with a debate. Socrates is asked whether the sounds of words are simply arbitrary conventions, as Hermogenes suggests, or if sounds are reflective in some way of their ...

Teens’ brains can benefit from learning to make music, according to findings from a new study in Chicago. For more than a decade, Nina Kraus, the director of Northwestern University’s Auditory ...