Subject 046M, two years old, was seated nervously across from me at the table, his hands clasped tightly together in his lap. He appeared to have caught an incurable case of the squirms. I resisted ...

When we open our eyes, a myriad of colors immediately appear before us. But they are not merely a decoration of our visual world; they enable us to identify objects, materials, and substances in our ...

A series of color swatches are laid in front of you – each swatch a different color. A researcher asks you which one is red, and you pick the one you believe is red. You then repeat the name game for ...

Cymbolism lets you vote on the color you most associate with a given word, giving designers data on which colors best convey feelings. What color is the word “music?” How about the colors of words ...

Children learn language effortlessly and completely voluntarily. They learn new words miraculously fast. A teenager masters about 60,000 words of their mother tongue by the time they finish high ...