A group of neuroscientists argue that our words are primarily for communicating, not for reasoning. By Carl Zimmer For thousands of years, philosophers have argued about the purpose of language. Plato ...

Kian Mintz-Woo receives funding from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and from Canada's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) under the SSHRC Insight Grant ...

The more closely scientists listen to the brain during conversation, the more its activity patterns resemble the statistical machinery inside modern artificial intelligence. Instead of following only ...