According to the body-specificity hypothesis, hearing action words creates body-specific mental simulations of the actions. Handedness should, therefore, affect mental simulations. Given that pictures ...

New research from Northwestern University shows 15-month-old infants can learn words for objects they've never seen. This ...

24 children at each of 3 age levels (mean ages 24, 29, and 45 months) participated in 2 discrimination transfer tasks. Each subject was trained with objects as training stimuli for 1 problem and with ...