When people are framed as something less than fully human, public empathy and willingness to protect their rights shrink ...

Older adults may find learning new languages challenging, but recent research shows the effort itself provides significant ...

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development ...

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 ...

We investigated how our brains process language during real-life conversations. Specifically, we wanted to understand which brain regions become active when we're speaking and listening, and how these ...

A protein capable of recording incoming chemical signals of brain cells was engineered by scientists, which could decode the ...

Neuroscientists have long listened to the brain’s electrical spikes, but those loud crackles are only the final output of a much quieter conversation. Now a set of new tools is letting researchers ...

Learn more about the “glue sniffer” protein, which is able to detect brain cells’ incoming chemical signals, and what that ...