A new brain decoding method called mind captioning can generate accurate text descriptions of what a person is seeing or ...

Building better readers should involve more than teaching the core components of early literacy—these five strategies are grounded in science and tested by expert educators.

In an early step toward letting severely paralyzed people speak with their thoughts, researchers translated brain signals into words using two grids of 16 microelectrodes implanted beneath the skull ...

“Every word was coined by a resourceful individual or borrowed as a result of language contact in a certain place at a certain time,” writes Anatoly Liberman in his new book, “Word Origins and How We ...

A breakthrough study published today in The New England Journal of Medicine by neuroscientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) shows how artificial intelligence (AI) deep ...

A person can bite their tongue to avoid blurting out a secret, but a surgically implanted brain computer interface can reveal words that were never meant to be spoken. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports on a ...

The word “recondite” means something difficult or impossible for someone with ordinary knowledge to understand. It is an adjective that describes something complex. It can also mean dealing with ...

Your choice of words might seem random, but linguists and psychologists have discovered that certain verbal patterns betray ...