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 ...

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 ...

Recursive language models (RLMs) are an inference technique developed by researchers at MIT CSAIL that treat long prompts as an external environment to the model. Instead of forcing the entire prompt ...

An aptitude for mentally stringing together related items, often cited as a hallmark of human language, may have deep roots in primate evolution, a new study suggests. But “this work shows that the ...

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 ...

Timmy and Tommy are having a counting contest. “One,” says Timmy. “Two,” says Tommy. “Three,” Timmy replies. “Four,” Tommy responds. Timmy pauses. He can’t think of a higher number, and neither can ...