This is the type that shows ownership or direct connection. A typical singular possessive noun uses an apostrophe followed by ...

Infants as young as 15 months can use language context to infer the meaning of words referring to objects they’ve never seen.

I suspect you can’t win when you’re a popular commercial television personality who chooses to write a serious book. If your ...

The incidence of prostate cancer is increasing. Screening with an assay of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) has a high rate for false positive results. Genomewide association studies have ...

That’s because young children often learn to interpret the first noun in a sentence as the agent that does the acting. With passive sentences, they tend to misinterpret the meaning because they have ...

Researchers studying people's brain activity when looking at abstract art have revealed why we interpret blobs of paint on canvas so differently. When you look at an abstract painting, study it in ...

as explained in the article "Flexible hippocampal representation of abstract boundaries supports memory-guided choice" recently published in the journal Nature Communications. The boundaries of an ...

Research on Outreach Strategies for Empowering Intangible Cultural Heritage Lüju Opera. Open Access Library Journal, 12, 1-9. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1113303 . Since the success of Lüju Opera’s bid for ...

Background At least 60% of stroke, 40% of dementia and 35% of late-life depression (LLD) are attributable to modifiable risk factors, with great overlap due to shared pathophysiology. This study aims ...

Abstract: Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a complex neurodegenerative disorder marked by memory loss, executive dysfunction, and personality changes. Early diagnosis is challenging due to subtle symptoms ...

It turns out that the only boring thing about collective nouns is their name, as lexicographer, etymologist and broadcaster Susie Dent discovers. Video by Dominika Ozynska and Adrian Hartrick The ...