A new study suggests that everyday multilingual habits—from chatting with neighbors to revisiting a childhood language—may ...

The study of linguistic cognition takes you into the heart of the mind. Cognitive linguists examine the language that we use to tell stories, describe feelings and sensory experiences, collaborate ...

A large study of 800 adults shows that pragmatic language skills—the ability to understand sarcasm, indirect requests, tone, ...

Giosuè Baggio is in the Language Acquisition and Language Processing Lab, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim NO-7491, Norway. Binz et al. explore horizontal integration ...

"Holiday" or "vacation", "to start" or "to begin", "my friend's cat" or "the cat of my friend"—in our language, there are different ways of expressing the same things and concepts. But can the choice ...

Does epinephrine make you think differently? Could love make you illogical? The assumption that artificial intelligence would necessarily replicate human thought processes may be a fundamental ...

Large language models (LLMs) deliver impressive results, but are they truly capable of reaching or surpassing human ...