Title front-loading is a behavioral SEO technique which can lead to increased CTR on search result listings.
Here's how it works: The human eye tends to scan search results and other information starting from the beginning of each line of text -- and more importantly, we don't typically read the whole line when we're scanning for information.
By front-loading relevant keywords at the start of an article title, SEOs can leverage this behavioral phenomenon for a higher click-through rate.
Here's Wordmetrics' founder James Roven discussing this behavioral SEO strategy: