An international team proposes replacing Hockett’s feature checklist with a model of language as a dynamic, multimodal, and socially evolving system.

Sasha Stiles turned GPT-2 experiments into a self-writing poem at a Museum of Modern Art installation—and a new way to think about text-generating AI optimization ...

Human language may seem messy and inefficient compared to the ultra-compact strings of ones and zeros used by computers—but our brains actually prefer it that way. New research reveals that while ...

The cerebellum, often called the little brain, plays a much bigger role in language processing than once believed. Located at the base of the brain, the cerebellum has long been thought to be mainly ...

Biologists and chemists have a new programming language to uncover previously unknown environmental pollutants at breakneck speed -- without requiring them to code. Biologists and chemists have a new ...

When people listen to a story, their brains do not process language all at once. Instead, meaning unfolds over time, with different regions contributing at different moments as words accumulate into ...

Global language learning marketplace Preply Inc. said today it has raised $150 million in a late-stage funding round that will help accelerate the adoption of its platform, which pairs human teachers ...

Human language may appear inefficient compared with digital codes, yet its structure is deeply tuned to how the brain interacts with the world. Rather than compressing information into abstract ...

Video captures 70-year-old driver smash car through door of busy Sandy restaurant Video captures the moment a car smashes through the front window of a Sandy restaurant. The video from Los Garcia ...

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 ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to ...