For decades, psychologists have debated whether the human mind can be explained by one unified theory or must be broken into ...

New research shows that AI language models can develop a mathematical “understanding” that differentiates between events that ...

Human languages are known to have grown and changed considerably over the course of history, often reflecting technological, ...

Human language may seem messy and inefficient compared to the ultra-compact strings of ones and zeros used by computers—but our brains actually prefer it that way. New research reveals that while ...

We now have a much more sophisticated understanding of language's neural architecture—not just the basic abilities of speaking and understanding, but the intricate computational machinery that makes ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...