Practising a tool-using task helps people do better in a test of complex language understanding – and the benefits go the other way too. The crossover may happen because some of the same parts of the ...

After 150 years of mystery, neuroscience has finally cracked the code on how language works in the brain—and the answer is surprisingly elegant.

I said previously that human self-conscious awareness arose as a consequence of two other unique human attributes, our capacity for language and our ability to continually transform the world by ...

Metaphor is not merely a literary device but a fundamental cognitive mechanism that shapes how individuals conceptualise and communicate their experiences. In cognitive linguistics, research into ...

The success of ChatGPT and its competitors is based on what’s termed emergent behaviors. These systems, called large language models (LLMs), weren’t trained to output natural-sounding language (or ...