Neuroscientists have long listened to the brain’s electrical spikes, but those loud crackles are only the final output of a ...

The idea of “reading minds” has shifted from science fiction to a concrete engineering challenge, and the latest ...

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 ...

Early communication between three pairs of brain regions is associated with favorable six-month outcomes after brain injury.

Imagine seeing a furry, four-legged animal that meows. Mentally, you know what it is, but the word 'cat' is stuck on the tip of your tongue. This phenomenon, known as Broca's aphasia or expressive ...

A new study reveals that the human brain processes spoken language in a sequence that closely mirrors the layered architecture of advanced AI language models. Using electrocorticography data from ...

Budgerigars are the only animals known so far to have language-producing centers of neurons akin to those in humans, according to new research. H. Zell via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 Parrots ...

A new study suggests that everyday multilingual habits—from chatting with neighbors to revisiting a childhood language—may help preserve memory, attention, and brain flexibility as we age. An ...

But researchers were concerned about whether this procedure might have other, less desirable effects. What happens when the right and left sides of the cerebral cortex—responsible for an enormous ...

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 ...