Computers aren’t really known for their way with words, but that could be about to change. An artificial intelligence program recently scored as high as a 4-year-old on a test of verbal IQ. The result ...

Are you good with the written and spoken word? Do you communicate with style or find yourself stumbling over your words? Word "smarts" makes up part of what is collectively known as intelligence. Find ...

Canadian scientists who specialize in learning, memory and language in children have found exciting evidence that preschoolers can improve their verbal intelligence after only 20 days of classroom ...

Science just took us a small step closer to HAL 9000. A new artificial intelligence (AI) program designed by Chinese researchers has beat humans on a verbal IQ test. Scoring well on the verbal section ...

A story that made the rounds this week (I wrote about it for COSMOS, but it went as big as the BBC) was the UCL study that linked IQ swings in adolescence to specific structural changes in the brain.

Scientists have studied 54 individuals -- half Spanish and half Moroccan -- to determine how IQ tests work. New research suggests that a universal test of intelligence quotient does not exist. Results ...

Researchers at the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Theory of Science at the University of Gothenburg in Göteborg, Sweden, have created a computer program that can score 150 on standard ...