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Death is one of life's bitter certainties, yet having conversations about it can be difficult or uncomfortable. But in a year like 2020, witness to so much grief and death, being able to have these ...

This video still shows a view of one person's cerebral cortex. Pink areas have above-average activity; blue areas have below-average activity. (Jerry Tang and Alexander Huth) Scientists have found a ...

Restoring communication Jerry Tang and colleagues at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a language decoder that translates brain activity data from functional MRI scans into a continuous ...

Though researchers have long suspected the brain mechanism for computer programming would be similar to that for math or even language, this study revealed that when seasoned coders work, most brain ...

The idea of “reading minds” has shifted from science fiction to a concrete engineering challenge, and the latest breakthroughs suggest the brain’s private code is finally yielding. Researchers are not ...

On one hand, there are dog people, and on the other, there are bird people. I identify as one of the latter. Not the kind of bird-man who celebrates secret personal victories allotted only to those ...

(A) After the electrodes were implanted, participants took part in the study in the wheelchair, reading sentences given visual cues. Audio data were collected using a directional microphone, and ...

Have you ever wondered what chickens are talking about? Chickens are quite the communicators — their clucks, squawks, and purrs are not just random sounds but a complex language system. These sounds ...

The work relies in part on a transformer model, similar to the ones that power ChatGPT. Alex Huth (left), Shailee Jain (center) and Jerry Tang (right) prepare to collect brain activity data in the ...