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

Brain activity during speech follows a layered timing pattern that matches large language model steps, showing how meaning builds gradually.

Large language models represent text using tokens, each of which is a few characters. Short words are represented by a single token (like “the” or “it”), whereas larger words may be represented by ...

In their classic 1998 textbook on cognitive neuroscience, Michael Gazzaniga, Richard Ivry, and George Mangun made a sobering observation: there was no clear mapping between how we process language and ...

The human brain processes spoken language in a step-by-step sequence that closely matches how large language models transform ...