A recent study has identified detailed new categories for how autistic individuals understand and use language, suggesting ...

"Bend your ear." "Grasping at straws." "Kick the bucket." English is filled with figurative language that makes meaning by evoking physical actions of the human body. During the past decade, a number ...

The Editors at Communications Psychology, Nature Communications, and Scientific Reports invite submissions providing neurocognitive perspectives on language comprehension. Communicating through spoken ...

“Avoid the passive voice” is a favorite maxim of writing teachers. But for young learners, exposure to passive construction—and other more complex sentences in spoken language—may help children ...

Prediction has been touted as a “canonical cortical computation” [i], and essential for basic linguistic processes [ii]. Naturally, the efficiency with which the brain can implement its various forms ...