The AI program was way less cute than a real baby. But like a baby, it learned its first words by seeing objects and hearing words. Some ideas of language learning hold that humans are born with ...

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

A new study investigates where toddlers look when they learn new words. It finds that children with larger vocabularies looked quickly towards objects when learning new words. Meanwhile, children who ...

This is not comparable to word learning in children. By around age two, typical English-speaking children learn approximately ...