The study of the neural basis of language has largely focused on regions in the cortex -- the outer brain layers thought by many researchers to have expanded during human evolution. New research adds ...

Syntactic properties such as word orders are a major factor determining the difficulty of a sentence. In SO-type languages where the subject (S) precedes the object (O) in canonical word order, there ...

Language is a unique evolutionary achievement considered to have decisively driven the sophistication of human cognition 1. Comprehending spoken language, which is the focus of this article, is the ...

One of my biggest complaints about terminology in the industry is the claim that data from conversations is “unstructured data”. That is nonsense. After all, how do people communicate, either in voice ...

It would seem that the computer science world is, in general, populated by firm believers in the idea that you can never have too many programming languages. I’ve covered all sorts of languages over ...

Prediction has been touted as a “canonical cortical computation” [i], and essential for basic linguistic processes [ii]. Naturally, the efficiency with which the brain can implement its various forms ...