In a MIT study, they had a group of children take piano lessons, reading lessons, or no lessons. The kids who took piano lessons were better able to distinguish between different pitches, which therefore improved their ability to discriminate between spoken words.

This study followed 1,000 people and compared their test results as children vs. at age 50. The kids who could name objects/animals in pictures, form a sentence, and share experiences more quickly than other children tended to show higher IQ's later on in life.

This article is about how researchers have found that in teaching students who are trying to learn English the Latin roots of words, it has helped them figure out the meaning of unfamiliar words.

This article is about how a team of researchers has discovered the distinct computations that occur when we switch between different languages.