For a translator to turn one language (say, English) into another (say, Greek), she has to be able to understand both languages and what common meanings they point to, because English is not very ...

People who speak a language that has multiple words for different shades of colour perceive the shades more quickly. Bees have a phenomenal ability to perceive different shades of colour, and their ...

The interplay between language and colour perception has emerged as a pivotal topic in recent cognitive neuroscience and psycholinguistic research. Accumulating evidence suggests that the words we use ...

“SHAPE: The system of shape representations in cognition, development and across languages,” encompasses the way that shape figures into the learning of 44 different languages — systematically sampled ...

When you open your eyes, you see a colorful three-dimensional world of objects and events. Add to the mixture a panoply of sounds, smells, tastes, and bodily sensations, and you’ve got the ...

Language is a beautifully intricate system that allows us to express our thoughts, emotions, and experiences—things that would be incommunicable and senseless otherwise. It serves as a bridge between ...

Infant language development encompasses a remarkable period in which the foundations for later language processing and comprehension are established. During this phase, infants exhibit a high degree ...

Peking University, May 16, 2025: Lu Yao, assistant professor in the PKU Department of Chinese Language and Literature and his team from the PKU Linguistics Laboratory published a research paper titled ...

Tom Scott did a video a week or so back, musing on his use of AI in content generation and how disruptive he thought it was. He found AI scary, in a way, and considered it a societal disruptor on the ...