"It is only in the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye," the soft voice said, first in Spanish, then in Hungarian. Then the voice began to recite a series of ...

So, you think you’re smart? Try to understand important words said in an entirely unknown language, used by a totally different species — now, multiply that by several languages. Even as we dazed ...

We live in a sea of constant sounds and noises. Some are meaningful and some are not. However, it seems as though we have a remarkable ability to discriminate human speech from all of those other ...

There is no doubt that dogs can learn that words spoken by humans may contain instructions for certain behaviors that they are requested to do. You tell Lassie to sit or come and she sits or ambles to ...