Across the United States, a quiet linguistic shift is underway, reshaping how people speak in ways that are easy to miss in ...

Is it possible to spot personality dysfunction from someone's everyday word use? My colleagues and I have conducted research ...

The language patterns a person uses in describing their feelings can reveal their true sentiments about other groups of people, researchers report. “There are times when people might lie about how ...

The idea of “reading minds” has shifted from science fiction to a concrete engineering challenge, and the latest breakthroughs suggest the brain’s private code is finally yielding. Researchers are not ...

Researchers in brain science and language development have found that infants in the first days of their life cry in different ways depending on their parents’ language. Scientists compared recordings ...

If you’ve spent the weekend enjoying a good book in the May sun, you might not have been thinking about mathematics. But if you were reading a book in a Western language, there’s a good chance that ...

Effective compression is about finding patterns to make data smaller without losing information. When an algorithm or model can accurately guess the next piece of data in a sequence, it shows it’s ...