How does the brain manage to catch the drift of a mumbled sentence or a flat, robotic voice? A new study led by researchers ...

Large language models, often called LLMs, usually help write emails, answer questions, and summarize documents. A new ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a ...

Casey Harrell, who has ALS and received surgically implanted electrodes to help connect his brain to a computer, has attachment points removed by his wife, Levana Saxon, in Oakland, Calif., on Aug. 13 ...

This post is part one of a series. Speaking feels like the most natural thing in the world. You think a thought, open your mouth, and words tumble out in perfect sequence. Yet this apparent simplicity ...

Brain activity during speech follows a layered timing pattern that matches large language model steps, showing how meaning builds gradually.

A new study suggests that everyday multilingual habits—from chatting with neighbors to revisiting a childhood language—may ...

People generally don’t confuse the sounds of singing and talking. That may seem obvious, but it’s actually quite impressive—particularly because we can usually differentiate between the two even when ...

Gerald Maguire has stuttered since childhood, but you might not guess it from talking to him. For the past 25 years, Maguire — a psychiatrist at the University of California, Riverside — has been ...

For the first time, a brain implant has helped a bilingual person who is unable to articulate words to communicate in both of his languages. An artificial-intelligence (AI) system coupled to the brain ...

Marking a breakthrough in the field of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), a team of researchers from UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco has unlocked a way to restore naturalistic speech for people with ...

In their classic 1998 textbook on cognitive neuroscience, Michael Gazzaniga, Richard Ivry, and George Mangun made a sobering observation: there was no clear mapping between how we process language and ...