Parents are always eager to hear their child's first words. And as their kids starts to string those words together into phrases, parents may look for the best ways to encourage language development.

Lion’s support for gestures—tapping and swiping fingers on a Multi-Touch trackpad—isn’t entirely new. OS X has supported gestures in some form for several years. Even so, many of us still haven’t ...

What if it was as easy to add a new gesture to Microsoft Kinect as it is to create a keyboard shortcut? Big data startup Kaggle just launched a machine learning competition to develop an algorithm ...

A 6-year-old girl is shown a short, fat glass and a tall, thin glass. Which one, she is asked, holds more water? The tall glass, she replies, not grasping that they both hold the same amount. Yet, as ...

Spontaneous gesture can help children learn, whether they use a spoken language or sign language, according to a new report. "Children who can hear use gesture along with speech to communicate as they ...

Kids asked to physically gesture at math problems are nearly three times more likely than non-gesturers to remember what they've learned. Scientists suggest it's possible to help children learn ...

Child psychologists — and kindergarten teachers — have long known that when children first show up for school, some of them speak a lot more fluently than others. Psychologists also know that children ...

Zookeepers at a British zoo had noticed some of the monkeys living within a group of mandrills sometimes made a peculiar gesture: They covered their eyes with one hand. At first glance, this gesture ...

Kids asked to physically gesture at math problems are nearly three times more likely than non-gesturers to remember what they’ve learned. In today’s issue of the journal Cognition, a University of ...