How do electrical signals become "about" something? Through purely physical processes, neural networks transform activity ...

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

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

A sentence must never be interpreted out of context, as any scholar knows. It is pointless, furthermore, to suggest that separate sentences are true out of a context of linguistic and nonlinguistic ...

The technology to decode our thoughts is drawing ever closer. Neuroscientists at the University of Texas have for the first time decoded data from non-invasive brain scans and used them to reconstruct ...

Instead, the meaning of the word comes from the fact that in the mind’s eye (and ear, nose, and hand), we can see the four-legged animal, mentally hear its barking, imagine its particular dog smell, ...

In an exclusive interview with Eleven Media, Language Parent, that is the home of Speech Genie, announce the launch of ...

Earlier this month, a Chinese tech giant quietly dethroned Microsoft and Google in an ongoing competition in AI. The company was Baidu, China’s closest equivalent to Google, and the competition was ...

Growing up, Tai-Danae Bradley had no love for math. In 2008, she entered the City College of New York, where she played for the basketball team and hoped to start a career in sports nutrition. She saw ...

Traditionally the relation between philosophy and religion has been one either of identity, as in the early Middle Ages, or of hostility, as in the Age of Reason. In the eighteenth and nineteenth ...

Dictionary.com’s 2025 Word of the Year, “6-7,” has stirred debate over language’s fading meaning. Once, the annual selection reflected global consciousness through words like change and identity. Now, ...