The idea of “reading minds” has shifted from science fiction to a concrete engineering challenge, and the latest ...

The more closely scientists listen to the brain during conversation, the more its activity patterns resemble the statistical ...

Parts of the brain are "rewired" when people learn computer programming, according to new research. Scientists watched university students’ brains as they learned to code. The team used functional ...

This year, AI continued looming large in the software world. But more than before, people are wrestling with both its amazing ...

Computer programming powers modern society and enabled the artificial intelligence revolution, but little is known about how our brains learn this essential skill. To help answer that question, Johns ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to ...

The language we learn growing up seems to leave a lasting, biological imprint on our brains. German and Arabic native speakers have different connection strengths in specific parts of the brain’s ...