When people are framed as something less than fully human, public empathy and willingness to protect their rights shrink ...

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

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

Sentences with greater linguistic complexity are most likely to fire up a key brain language processing center, according to a study that employed an artificial language network. With help from an ...

Older adults may find learning new languages challenging, but recent research shows the effort itself provides significant ...

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 ...

Researchers from Georgetown University medical center have found that young children use both the right and left sides of their brain to process language, unlike adults who almost exclusively use the ...

Human brains still react to chimp voices, hinting at a deep evolutionary link in how we recognize sound.

In a new study published in the journal Science of Learning, researchers showed that small amounts of electrical stimulation through specially designed ear pieces improved the adult participants’ ...