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Thanks to our brains, we can talk to our families and friends and easily understand what they are saying. But did you know that our brains do not just listen—they also try to guess what we are going t...

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...

Dynamic coding helps explain how the brain processes multiple features of speech—from the smallest units of sounds to full sentences—simultaneously.

During successful language comprehension, speech sounds (phonemes) are encoded within a series of neural patterns that evolve over time. Here we tested whether these neural dynamics of speech encoding...

Materials for the paper "How children map causal verbs to different causes across development" by David Rose, Siying Zhang, Shaun Nichols, Ellen Markman and Tobias Gerstenberg. - davdrose...

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We perceive continuous speech as a series of discrete words, despite the lack of clear acoustic boundaries. The superior temporal gyrus (STG) encodes …

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