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 ...

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 ...

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development of computational models inspired by the brain's layered organization, also ...

Human language is structured to minimize mental effort by using familiar, predictive patterns grounded in lived experience.

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

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 ...

A protein capable of recording incoming chemical signals of brain cells was engineered by scientists, which could decode the brain.

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 ...