How you process language is influenced by how each side of your brain developed in early life. Peter Dazeley/The Image Bank via Getty Images Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic ...

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We investigated how our brains process language during real-life conversations. Specifically, we wanted to understand which brain regions become active when we're speaking and listening, and how these ...

Over the past decades, computer scientists have developed numerous artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can process human speech in different languages. The extent to which these models replicate ...

Schizophrenia risk may reflect two brain pathways with different cortical and subcortical balance. Early language learning relies more on subcortical systems; later learning engages cortical control.

Infants born deaf or hard of hearing show adverse changes in how their brains organize and specialize, but exposure to sound and language may help them develop more normally, according to new research ...

When public debates turn sharp or ugly, it’s tempting to shrug off harsh language as just part of the noise — distasteful, certainly, but not truly harmful. Yet research from neuroscience, history and ...

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 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic information into parallel ...