Your choice of words might seem random, but linguists and psychologists have discovered that certain verbal patterns betray deeply rooted personality characteristics. Modern computational language ...

A new online visual puzzle challenges you to find a subtly different word within a grid of identical ones in just six seconds ...

Overview: BUGGY, SNOOP, INPUT, and WEDGE reflect a mix of tech glitches, curiosity, data, and clever problem-solving — ...

During the first year of life, when babies spend so much time listening to language, they're actually tracking word patterns that will support their process of word- learning that occurs between the ...

Word patterns that stir emotion and rouse our reason are powerful. They do change us (Waldman, 2012). When we encounter something that interests us, delights us, or disgusts us, short-term ...

In each sentence below, words or phrases that represent major sentence elements appear randomly in different colors. These sentence elements include SUBJECTS (S), VERBS (V), and OBJECTS (O). For each ...

An optical illusion challenges viewers to find the hidden word GHOST within a pattern of the word NIGHT. This visual puzzle tests observation skills a ...