Researchers at the University of Vermont have uncovered a powerful new insight about how language works—one that overturns a cornerstone assumption in psychology, linguistics, and artificial ...

Analysis shows whales’ coda vocalizations are ‘highly complex’ and remarkably similar to our own ...

Chinese researchers for the first time systematically identified in marmoset brains a fiber bundle highly homologous to the ...

Researchers have identified tiny genetic “switches” that appear to play a surprisingly large role in human language ability.

Can a computer learn a language the way a child does? A recent study sheds new light on this question. The researchers advocate for a fundamental revision of how artificial intelligence acquires and ...

Wild chimpanzees alter the meaning of single calls when embedding them into diverse call combinations, mirroring linguistic operations in human language. Human language, however, allows an infinite ...

We are in a modern world where conversations are happening across borders daily. Whether you are writing a global marketing campaign, a customer support email or a legal document, language is the ...

I said previously that human self-conscious awareness arose as a consequence of two other unique human attributes, our capacity for language and our ability to continually transform the world by ...

Geneticists have narrowed down the root of human language evolution after splicing our genes into mice to enhance their learning abilities. In the first study to investigate the cognitive effects of ...