Large language models (LLMs) have come closest among all models to date to mastering
human language, yet opinions about their linguistic and cognitive capabilities remain split …

Human language allows us to create an infinitude of ideas from a finite set of basic building
blocks. What is the neurobiology of this combinatory system? Research has begun to dissect …

Understanding spoken language requires transforming ambiguous acoustic streams into a
hierarchy of representations, from phonemes to meaning. It has been suggested that the …

Much research in cognitive neuroscience supports prediction as a canonical computation of
cognition across domains. Is such predictive coding implemented by feedback from higher …

Reading a sentence entails integrating the meanings of individual words to infer more
complex, higher-order meaning. This highly rapid and complex human behavior is known to …

To understand language, we need to recognize words and combine them into phrases and
sentences. During this process, responses to the words themselves are changed. In a step …

Speech processing is highly incremental. It is widely accepted that human listeners
continuously use the linguistic context to anticipate upcoming concepts, words, and …

To understand what you are reading now, your mind retrieves the meanings of words and
constructions from a linguistic knowledge store (lexico-semantic processing) and identifies …

Recent neurobiological models on language suggest that auditory sentence comprehension
is supported by a coordinated temporal interplay within a left-dominant brain network …

Recent research has established that cortical activity “tracks” the presentation rate of
syntactic phrases in continuous speech, even though phrases are abstract units that do not …