Scientists have discovered that the human brain understands spoken language in a way that closely resembles how advanced AI ...

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

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Neuroscientists have long listened to the brain’s electrical spikes, but those loud crackles are only the final output of a much quieter conversation. Now a set of new tools is letting researchers ...

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development ...

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Learning a second language has a variety of benefits, and according to recent studies, it may even stave off dementia.

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 ...

On Jan. 17, 1893, the Hawaiian Kingdom was overthrown in a move that disregarded the rights and sovereignty of Native ...

When you get lost in a book, you often enter a trance-like state similar to meditation and that state is deeply protective.” ...