Brain scans show a spot in the cerebellum attuned specifically to words, expanding on studies that point to the region's ...

Scientists have found that the human brain understands spoken language in a surprisingly similar way to advanced AI systems.

The cerebellum, often called the little brain, plays a much bigger role in language processing than once believed. Located at ...

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

Scientists have discovered that the human brain understands spoken language in a way that closely resembles how advanced AI language models work. By tracking brain activity as people listened to a ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to ...

A new study reveals that the human brain processes spoken language in a sequence that closely mirrors the layered architecture of advanced AI language models. Using electrocorticography data from ...

Some of the most complex cognitive functions are possible because different sides of your brain control them. Chief among them is speech perception, the ability to interpret language. In people, the ...

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

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 ...

Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, ...

Hysell V Oviedo receives funding from NIH. Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic information into parallel channels – linguistic, emotional and musical – and acts as a biological ...