(CN) — Scientists have not yet decoded what sperm whales are saying to each other, but a study published Tuesday in Nature Communications shows their language is more complex than previously believed.

By examining factors such as working memory and emotional intelligence along with language background, our research moves beyond the idea of a simplistic “foreign language effect” and offers a more ...

People are often under the false impression that making their language complex or using jargon enhances their credibility. That might be true in certain circumstances. If you’re an academic talking to ...

Sentences with greater linguistic complexity are most likely to fire up a key brain language processing center, according to a study that employed an artificial language network. With help from an ...

Can we be conscious without language? Does language influence our conscious experience? These questions, which are central to understanding the human mind, have been explored by researchers at the ...

The ability to communicate symbolically is one of the hallmarks of our species, yet scientists still don’t know exactly when our capacity for language arose. According to new research, genes likely to ...

Valeria Vinogradova, a researcher at HSE University, together with British colleagues, studied how language proficiency affects cognitive processing in deaf adults. The study showed that higher ...

Large language models (LLMs) can learn complex reasoning tasks without relying on large datasets, according to a new study by researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Their findings show that ...

Complex networks offer a robust framework for understanding language and text as emergent, multi-level systems. Using graph theory, researchers represent words, punctuation, and semantic units as ...

Lorenz Graf-Vlachy is Professor for Strategic Management and Leadership at TU Dortmund University and one of the authors of the study. Keep it simple? Start-up entrepreneurs often hear that simplicity ...