“Every word was coined by a resourceful individual or borrowed as a result of language contact in a certain place at a certain time,” writes Anatoly Liberman in his new book, “Word Origins and How We ...

A spinning 3D view of one person's cerebral cortex. Pink indicates above average activity and blue shows below average activity. Jerry Tang and Alexander Huth Researchers have created a non-invasive ...

Recently, my colleagues and I published a study on decoding language from brain recordings made using functional MRI. Brain decoders are being developed to help restore communication to people who ...

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a decoder that uses information from fMRI scans to reconstruct human thoughts. Jerry Tang, Amanda LeBel, Shailee Jain and Alexander Huth ...

Brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) can restore communication by decoding speech-related motor responses from intracranial recordings. However, it has been unclear whether language decoders could achieve ...