Imagine Max, a well-trained border collie, manages to ignore a squirrel in the park when his owner tells him to sit. His ...

Some dogs can learn new object names by overhearing human conversation, highlighting advanced learning skills also seen in ...

Some dogs can learn words by eavesdropping on conversations, study finds. The rare ability mirrors how 18-month-old toddlers ...

"Under the right conditions, some dogs present behaviors strikingly similar to those of young children," lead scientist, Dr. Shany Dror, said ...

How people work out the meanings of new words has been revealed by researchers, who say this is similar to the way in which young children learn language. The researchers said: ''A lot of what infants ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified the tiers associated with challenging words. Children who enter kindergarten with a small vocabulary don’t get taught enough ...