Recent artificial neural networks that process natural language achieve unprecedented performance in tasks requiring...
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Oh, That’s Nice
How We Recognize Irony “Are you being ironic?”—Good question! We don’t always recognize irony right away. An...
New Research Shows How Cultural Transmission Shapes the...
Speech and song have been transmitted orally for countless human generations, changing over time under the influence of...
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 to...
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 2021...