Pinker's new book reveals how recursive mentalizing—thinking about thinking—may be the hidden engine of human life, from ...

A genetic mutation that slowed down the development of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) in two or more children may have triggered a cascade of events leading to acquisition of recursive language and ...

The research details how embeddings operate as “general intellect” - a collective, machine-readable form of human thought.

Neuroscientist Andrey Vyshedskiy from Boston University has recently published a paper that could explain the long-standing mystery surrounding language evolution that has baffled scientists for ...

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The key cognitive step that allowed humans to become the only animals using language may have been identified, scientists say. A new study on monkeys found that while they are able to understand basic ...

The new model from Samsung AI Labs named Tiny Recursive Model (TRM) has taken on models that are thousand times bigger than ...

What allows humans to infer “a notion of structure” (Otto Jespersen) when using language, art, music, and mathematics? All of these domains have their own unique representational units (words, notes), ...