The idea of “reading minds” has shifted from science fiction to a concrete engineering challenge, and the latest breakthroughs suggest the brain’s private code is finally yielding. Researchers are not ...

Restoring communication Jerry Tang and colleagues at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a language decoder that translates brain activity data from functional MRI scans into a continuous ...

Have you ever wondered what chickens are talking about? Chickens are quite the communicators — their clucks, squawks, and purrs are not just random sounds but a complex language system. These sounds ...

"It only takes a minute to fall in love," sang teen sensation Take That back in 1992, and it turns out, they weren't far off; studies by York psychologist Dr Arthur Arun found that it takes us between ...

A UNIGE team shows that the human brain is capable of identifying the vocalizations of certain primate species, if they are close to us and if the frequencies used are also close to our own. Are we ...