Human languages are complex phenomena. Around 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide, some with only a handful of remaining speakers, while others, such as Chinese, English, Spanish and Hindi, are ...

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

Sentences with greater linguistic complexity are most likely to fire up a key brain language processing center, according to a study that employed an artificial language network. With help from an ...

Project CETI is harnessing AI to understand the complex communication system of sperm whales. In a new study, the project's scientists used AI to decode thousands of sperm whale clicks. CETI founder ...

Dolphins are widely known to be one of the most intelligent animals on the planet. Scientists have been studying them for a long time and have learned a lot, including the fact that dolphins have ...

It’s further proof that even fairly complex neural processes are not the same as consciousness.

When I was in seventh grade, I had a language arts workbook that asked us to fill in the blanks with one of four words. Approaches varied, but the idea was to give students a sense of the range of our ...

Lorenz Graf-Vlachy is Professor for Strategic Management and Leadership at TU Dortmund University and one of the authors of the study. Keep it simple? Start-up entrepreneurs often hear that simplicity ...