The cerebellum, often called the little brain, plays a much bigger role in language processing than once believed. Located at ...

By tracking brain activity as people listened to a spoken story, researchers found that the brain builds meaning step by step ...

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 ...

Valeria Vinogradova, a researcher at HSE University, together with British colleagues, studied how language proficiency affects cognitive processing in deaf adults. The study showed that higher ...

Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, ...

Scientists have found that the human brain understands spoken language in a surprisingly similar way to advanced AI systems.

Some of the most complex cognitive functions are possible because different sides of your brain control them. Chief among them is speech perception, the ability to interpret language. In people, the ...

The brain’s hemispheres are specialized for efficiency. Modern neuroscience shows lateralization enhances function without ...

Artificial intelligence was built to process data, not to think like us. Yet a growing body of research is finding that the internal workings of advanced language and speech models are starting to ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Hysell V. Oviedo, Washington University in St. Louis (THE CONVERSATION) Some of the ...