Speech and song have been transmitted orally for countless human generations, changing over time under the influence of...
Language and Communication
Artificial Intelligence from a Psychologist’s Point of View
Researchers test cognitive abilities of the language model GPT-3 Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biological...
Commonalities and Asymmetries in the Neurobiological...
The neurobiology of sentence production has been largely understudied compared to the neurobiology of sentence...
A hierarchy of linguistic predictions during natural language...
Understanding spoken language requires transforming ambiguous acoustic streams into a hierarchy of representations, from...
Our Brain is a Prediction Machine that is Always Active
Our brain works a bit like the autocomplete function on your phone – it is constantly trying to guess the next word when...
Language as a Marker of the Mind
In a discussion article published in Cognition, Peter Hagoort, professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Radboud University...
Neural Synchronization is Strongest to the Spectral Flux of Slow...
Neural activity in the auditory system synchronizes to sound rhythms, and brain–environment synchronization is thought...
Two new research groups at the Max Planck Institute for Brain...
Alison Barker and Vanessa Stempel joined the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research as new research group leaders in...
Commonalities and asymmetries in the neurobiological...
The neurobiology of sentence production has been largely understudied compared to the neurobiology of sentence...
Bird pupils behave unexpectedly different
Pupil size changes in awake and sleeping birds in opposite ways to mammals. The pupil not only regulates the amount of...