Memorize guitar chords, then play a song; memorize words, then have a conversation or write an essay. This helps you memorize facts better, but more importantly, it turns them into skills.

It goes without saying that memorising the 1,000 most common words in Lingala, French or Chinese is not going to make anyone a fluent speaker. That would have been an unrealistic goal.

But it is still a big step for infants to learn to use words to refer to objects that are not immediately present, to combine words and to learn grammatical rules.

In other words, we often try to memorize Scripture in a manner in which it will be easily lost. Autobiographical memory, however, has much more staying power.

How a baby with a headcam taught AI to learn words An AI model identified objects 62% of the time after being trained on video and audio captured by a camera strapped to a toddler’s head.

No longer do students bring home that list of words every Monday to memorize for a test Friday as did their parents, grandparents and even older brothers and sisters. The words are still spelled th… ...

Even if we don’t pay attention to what someone is telling us, their vocabulary and their use of language alone can provide valuable insights.

The parts of the brain that are needed to remember words, and how these are affected by a common form of epilepsy, have been identified by a team of neurologists and neurosurgeons at UCL.

Babies begin to learn words and what they mean well before they begin talking, and researchers are beginning to understand how they do it.