Fluent expression is not always evidence of a mind at work, but the human brain is primed to believe so. A pair of cognitive linguistics experts explain why language is not a good test of sentience.

A team of cognitive scientists and doctors finds that patients with aphasia use different cognitive tools to compensate for language deficits.

A mathematician explains how language can keep your online accounts safe and pinpoint your location on the planet.

Understanding the learning environments that help babies connect words to objects could help develop interventions for kids considered to be "late talkers."

A machine-learning method imagines what a sentence visually looks like, to situate and ground its semantics in the real world, improving translation, like humans can.

Study shows AI can identify self-reported race from medical images that contain no indications of race detectable by human experts.

Proficiency, emotions, immediacy are all potentially in play in conversations that run deep into the unconcious night, says dream expert Deirdre Leigh Barrett.

A new study digs into how the term "white privilege" affects online communication. The findings show how important language is in talking about race online.

Children are taught to value the lives of other species less, according to a new study.