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 ...

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

You wake up to your partner telling you that you had an entire conversation with someone named Bob last night, or your roommate mentions you were giving what sounded like a presentation in your sleep.

The world’s most powerful supercomputers can now run simulations of billions of neurons, and researchers hope such models ...

Scientists can now watch a conversation unfold between brain cells in real time, seeing each chemical message pass from one neuron to another in the span of mere milliseconds. This breakthrough in ...

It might even be the case that Britain’s varied bilingual communities – from Polish- to Punjabi-speakers – constitute a sort of hidden resource, invisible in the debates about the decline of languages ...