To help reduce the misuse and misunderstanding of current science, scientific research needs to be explained in language the ...

How is it that we can form new sentences in every conversation, with no apparent effort? A question that has long occupied ...

Because it suggests that our mental representation of language includes things grammar theory has been ignoring for decades.

A new study suggests that language may rely less on complex grammar than previously thought. Every time we speak, we’re ...

As we move into the new year, we need more ruptures in mainstream thinking. It’s the cracks that let the light in.

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 ...

Understanding the historical evolution and divergence of languages requires a quantitative framework for measuring their relationships. Traditional linguistic classifications provide hierarchical ...

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 ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...