How well we understand spoken language may depend more on our brains than our ears. In a new study, University of Iowa researchers investigated how quickly people across the life span—from youths to ...

Neuroscientists say the brain's auditory lexicon, a catalog of verbal language, is actually located in the front of the primary auditory cortex, not in back of it -- a finding that upends a ...

We recently reviewed briefly, the history of spoken word poetry and the poetry slam internationally, and how they developed in Guyana. There is quite a bit more to that history. It was pointed out ...

Three poets compete in the finals of the "Spoken Word to Go Go" competition. Host Felicia Curry visits the 31st Annual Barbecue Festival in downtown D.C. to take in a spoken word competition called ...