A new study reveals that the human brain processes spoken language in a sequence that closely mirrors the layered ...

A new study suggests that everyday multilingual habits—from chatting with neighbors to revisiting a childhood language—may ...

The more closely scientists listen to the brain during conversation, the more its activity patterns resemble the statistical machinery inside modern artificial intelligence. Instead of following only ...

Brain activity during speech follows a layered timing pattern that matches large language model steps, showing how meaning builds gradually.

Two new studies published in the journals Neuron00792-5) and Naturereveal how the human brain transforms a continuous stream of sound into distinct words. The findings identify a specific neural ...

Language enables people to transmit thoughts to each other because each person’s brain responds similarly to the meaning of words. In newly published research, my colleagues and I developed a ...

A new study has provided the first clear picture of where language processes are located in the brain. The findings may be useful in clinical trials involving language recovery after brain injury.

In their classic 1998 textbook on cognitive neuroscience, Michael Gazzaniga, Richard Ivry, and George Mangun made a sobering observation: there was no clear mapping between how we process language and ...

Hysell V Oviedo receives funding from NIH. Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic information into parallel channels – linguistic, emotional and musical – and acts as a biological ...

The human brain processes spoken language in a step-by-step sequence that closely matches how large language models transform ...