Think your cerebellum only coordinates fluid movements? New 2026 research reveals how your "little brain" also creates the ...

By tracking brain activity as people listened to a spoken story, researchers found that the brain builds meaning step by step ...

Why is it so easy to hear individual words in your native language, but in a foreign language they run together in one long stream of sound? Researchers from UC San Francisco have begun to answer that ...

The device picked up brain activity linked to phonemes, the small units that make up speech patterns, and AI software stitched them into sentences. HealthDay News — For the first time, scientists have ...

New research shows AI language models mirror how the human brain builds meaning over time while listening to natural speech.

The brain’s hemispheres are specialized for efficiency. Modern neuroscience shows lateralization enhances function without ...

The parts of the brain that are needed to remember words, and how these are affected by a common form of epilepsy, have been identified by a team of neurologists and neurosurgeons at UCL. The new ...

The figure shows how the brain works to decode the different aspects of words over time, with phonetics (i.e., sounds) processed first and most quickly and semantic meaning coming later and taking ...

New brain imaging research reveals that by 10 months old, infants are already beginning to understand verbs, before they even say their first words. In the first study to directly test infants' ...

When public debates turn sharp or ugly, it’s tempting to shrug off harsh language as just part of the noise — distasteful, certainly, but not truly harmful. Yet research from neuroscience, history and ...