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A New Study Decodes Language and Meaning From Brain Scans

The technology to decode our thoughts is drawing ever closer. Neuroscientists at the University of Texas have, for the first time, decoded data from non-invasive brain scans and used them to reconstruct language and meaning from stories that people hear, see, or even imagine. In a new study published in Nature Neuroscience, Alexander Huth and ...

Troy Oakes

A non-invasive brain scan.

Did You Know Mushrooms Have Their Own Language?

Most animals, whether primates, birds, or marine creatures like dolphins, communicate using some kind of language. But did you know scientists have been discovering that apart from animals, plants also use their own languages for communication? According to a recent study, mushrooms use electric impulses transmitted through underground filamentous structures called hyphae, producing a kind ...

Armin Auctor

Closeup of mushrooms growing on the forest floor in autumn.

Djabugay, the Near Extinct Australian Language

Djabugay is the language of the people with the same name. Their language is now almost extinct. The federal nation of Australia was established in 1901, about 120 years ago. Yet, this is a very old continent with an immensely long history of human settlement, much older than that of Europe and the Americas. The ...

Michael Segarty

Australian aborigines dancing.

The Fascinating Human Speech Mechanism That Turns Air Into Speech

Language has been one of the most significant evolutions of human history. Without speech, communication between people would have been limited, preventing the progress that has occurred over the past thousands of years. But have you ever wondered how the human speech mechanism works? Speech and human beings There are two aspects to human speech. ...

Armin Auctor

Human speech.