Inner speaking—the deliberate generation of speech through covert production mechanisms—is a common human experience. Current accounts propose that...

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By combining magnetoencephalography and eye tracking, this study sheds light on why people fixate on some parts of natural scenes longer than others. Rather than visual complexity, fixation durations ...

Rhythms of Speech and Language - May 2026

Whether large language models (LLMs) process language in a human-like manner remains unclear. Here, the authors re-examine prior LLM-to-brain mapping results, demonstrating that LLM-brain alignment ca...

Zou et al. reveal a key difference between human brains and large language models (LLMs). While LLMs are optimized to predict the next word, the human brain modulates prediction efficiency by strategi...