Digital communication is reshaping language, shifting meaning from words to signals like emojis, timing, and context.

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 ...

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 ...

We've known for decades that speech prosody is important for understanding language, and more recently there has also been a growing interest in other cues, such as gestures, which were previously ...

It’s simple enough for AI to seem to comprehend data, but devising a true test of a machine’s knowledge has proved difficult. But has GPT-3 — trained on text from thousands of websites, books and ...

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 ...

Humpback whale song is a striking example of a complex, culturally transmitted behavior, but up to now, there was little evidence it has language-like structure. Human language, which is also ...