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

Researchers have created a protein that can detect the faint chemical signals neurons receive from other brain cells. By ...

A new study suggests that everyday multilingual habits—from chatting with neighbors to revisiting a childhood language—may help preserve memory, attention, and brain flexibility as we age. An ...

More than 7,000 languages are spoken around the world, but the human brain becomes highly specialized to process speech in an individual’s own language. Recordings from human brains reveal the shared ...

In everyday conversation, it's critical to understand not just the words that are spoken, but the context in which they are said. If it's pouring rain and someone remarks on the "lovely weather," you ...

Neuroscientists have long listened to the brain’s electrical spikes, but those loud crackles are only the final output of a ...

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 ...

Researchers have developed a new way to decipher the language of the brain by listening to and recording the fastest and faintest communications signals of neurons. This allows scientists to watch ...

Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker during his Herald interview with Simon Wilson. The free-speech advocate, Trump antagonist and outspoken Harvard social scientist speaks to Simon Wilson ahead of his ...