Language
“Humans are social animals” is an understatement. In this blog, we dive into why humans are super-social animals and why we need to study the human brain beyond the individual and in the context of the culture that has evolved it.
Were you called a genius, visionary, or brilliant by an LLM (large language model) based on the last idea you discussed with it? But deep down, you know that the idea was half-baked and needed major refinement? The over-the-top ego massage may lead to an egoistic society. Read further to know why and how to stop it.
For social creatures such as humans, communication is key. However, certain conditions can make verbal communication difficult. Recent studies have been able to use Brain-Computer Interfaces to translate brain signals to speech so they can help speech-impaired patients communicate without needing to speak.
Language is one of the crucial functions of the brain and it requires a whole network of brain areas.
A conversation with ChatGPT is often very similar to a conversation with a human… but one with an insane amount of knowledge. Convenient, right?
As grown-ups, we easily tend to get bored when falling into a form of routine. Children, on the contrary, are very much into repetitions. This developmental difference is at the core of the way we process and interpret the world with experience.
You cannot talk with your mouth full, so how do people combine talking and drinking?
Your hands and mouth are intrinsically connected to each other. This relationship presumably developed through eating behavior and, nowadays, it also plays an important role in language.
In Canada, dancers and researchers collaborated to develop dance as the universal body language for interacting with people suffering from dementia.
Better than Wordle: from my new favorite language game Semantle we can learn how computers understand the meaning of words based on context.