A group of scientists set out to map how the brain represents the meaning of spoken language, word by word. Their results, published today in the journal Nature, not only represent a first-of-its- ...

By combining intracranial brain recordings with advanced language models, researchers found that speaking and listening engage widespread brain areas, especially in the frontal and temporal lobes.

Now, researchers from the University of California, Berkeley are tackling another big question – that of how we process language, creating a map that describes how the brain organizes words.