Brain scans show a spot in the cerebellum attuned specifically to words, expanding on studies that point to the region's ...

By tracking brain activity as people listened to a spoken story, researchers found that the brain builds meaning step by step ...

Artificial intelligence was built to process data, not to think like us. Yet a growing body of research is finding that the internal workings of advanced language and speech models are starting to ...

Scientists have discovered that the human brain understands spoken language in a way that closely resembles how advanced AI language models work. By tracking brain activity as people listened to a ...

When people are framed as something less than fully human, public empathy and willingness to protect their rights shrink ...

It's well established that children have an easier time learning second languages.

We investigated how our brains process language during real-life conversations. Specifically, we wanted to understand which brain regions become active when we're speaking and listening, and how these ...

A new study reveals that the human brain processes spoken language in a sequence that closely mirrors the layered architecture of advanced AI language models. Using electrocorticography data from ...

Use of inhibitory transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) over the speech area in the right side of the brain significantly improved language recovery in patients with stroke, new research shows. "The ...