Brain scans show a spot in the cerebellum attuned specifically to words, expanding on studies that point to the region's ...

The cerebellum, often called the little brain, plays a much bigger role in language processing than once believed. Located at ...

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

Scientists have discovered that the human brain understands spoken language in a way that closely resembles how advanced AI language models work. By tracking brain activity as people listened to a ...

Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, ...

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

Some of the most complex cognitive functions are possible because different sides of your brain control them. Chief among them is speech perception, the ability to interpret language. In people, the ...

Artificial intelligence was built to process data, not to think like us. Yet a growing body of research is finding that the internal workings of advanced language and speech models are starting to ...

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

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 ...