A genetic mutation that slowed down the development of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) in two or more children may have triggered a cascade of events leading to acquisition of recursive language and ...

Brand-new startups are continuing to raise massive rounds to work on new niches of AI. Recursive, a stealth-mode AI lab, has emerged ...

Brains sell magazines, mathematical linguistics sells caffeine. That basically summarizes coverage of a recent study on songbirds' "artificial grammar system". More on that later. First, a summary of ...

Neuroscientist Andrey Vyshedskiy from Boston University has recently published a paper that could explain the long-standing mystery surrounding language evolution that has baffled scientists for ...

An aptitude for mentally stringing together related items, often cited as a hallmark of human language, may have deep roots in primate evolution, a new study suggests. But “this work shows that the ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. logos of OpenAI There’s interesting news coming from Sam Altman’s empire, a firm known for ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Deep in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil, linguists are trying unravel the structure of a tribal language that might be radically different than ...