In a new article appearing in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, led by Cory Shain and Hope Kean, explore how the human brain shows ...

Demonstratives and deixis constitute fundamental components of language, enabling speakers to refer to objects, people, and locations relative to the speaker’s perspective. At its core, deictic ...

A neural network trained on the experiences of a single young child managed to learn one of the core components of language: how to match words to the objects they represent. Human babies are far ...