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Language is a means of communicating complex ideas or feelings. Although human language can be verbal or non-verbal, it is more complex than any form of animal communication and reflects the culture of its speakers.
This study sheds light on the role of mental imagery in creativity via semantic memory processing and identifies key brain networks during imagery-involved creative cognition.
Larger LLMs’ self-attention more accurately predicts readers’ regressive saccades and fMRI responses in language regions, whereas instruction tuning adds no benefit.
Perturbing medial and left inferior frontal cortices with TMS differentiates semantic from domain-general executive control, with compensatory interactions revealing a flexible, interconnected cognitive control network.
How do humans and large language models (LLMs) represent sentences? Liu et al. design a rule inference task revealing that both humans and LLMs implicitly decompose sentences into tree-structured constituents.
With a grant deadline looming, and inspired by the classics, Julia Carpenter, the company’s chief executive and co-founder, put pen to paper to capture ideas.
Research shows that jargon can make weak explanations feel complete by masking their gaps. What can experts do to communicate science effectively to laypeople?
