Children learn language effortlessly and completely voluntarily. They learn new words miraculously fast. A teenager masters about 60,000 words of their mother tongue by the time they finish high ...

Typical study methods like lectures, cramming, and re-reading are ineffective. According to scientific research, they don’t help students retain information over the long term. What works is spaced ...

In school, many kindergarten and first-grade students are asked to memorize lists of common words, which are sometimes called “sight words.” This practice skips important steps. The idea that children ...

Words with a pleasant sound are easier to remember, a study by the University of Vienna has found. Invented words like "clisious", "smanious" and "drikious" were presented to around 100 ...

I’m going to start by giving you five words to remember: stale, bring, instant, hanger, move. Memorize them and keep reading. Have you ever blanked on the words to a song in the middle of a ...

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Scientists created fake words to test if sound affects memory. Result: people remembered pleasant-sounding words twice as ...

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Which words do we find beautiful? And do beautifully sounding words stick better in memory? A new study led by linguist ...

Which words do we find beautiful? And do beautifully sounding words stick better in memory? A new study led by linguist Theresa Matzinger from the University of Vienna suggests that the phonemic ...