Within the rich tapestry of human experience, emotions are the vibrant threads that weave together our most profound moments and everyday interactions. Imagine emotions as a spectrum of colors, each ...

As meaning-makers, we use spoken or signed language to understand our experiences in the world around us. The emergence of generative artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT (using large language ...

What separates man from the apes? Scientists have always thought that one of the basic differences between us and our closest evolutionary cousins, chimpanzees, has been the ability to perceive and ...

Aarne Talman’s timely research delves into the meaning of language understanding, its measurement and the weaknesses of current measurement benchmarks. Aarne Talman’s work helps us develop better ...

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 ...

If you still believe grammar is dull, infinitives unsplittable and usage can be commanded by individual language bailiffs - you have never read or heard Crystal. Only a few decades ago academics would ...

Science shows that dogs learn to form mental representations of words, shedding light on why they often seem to grasp our conversations. Nothing quite captures the heart like videos of dogs appearing ...

“Ohio.” “Brat.” “Cringe.” “Weird.” Coconut emojis. Viral memes are omnipresent this campaign season, distilling concepts, images and ideas into simple, replicable formats that spread rapidly online.

Understanding how LLMs algorithmically “speak” can help us understand human language (and ourselves)." But I thought that LLMs were kinda wonky when it comes to writing things down and being able to ...