Outreach: News

Can ChatGPT help researchers understand how the human brain handles language?

PNAS Front Matter, June 2024

Can an emerging field called ‘neural systems understanding’ explain the brain?

The Transmitter, June 2024

For people who speak many languages, there’s something special about their native tongue

MIT News, March 2024

Studies of Unusual Brains Reveal Critical Insights Into Brain Organization, Function

MIT News, February 2023

The Difference Between Speaking and Thinking

The Atlantic, February 2023

Studying the Brains of Polyglots May Lead to Insights About Language

Brain & Life, October/November 2022

The Curious Hole in My Head

The New York Times, September 2022

Can We Think Without Using Language? 

Live Science, June 2022

Google’s Powerful AI Spotlights a Human Cognitive Glitch: Mistaking Fluent Speech for Fluent Thought

The Conversation, June 2022

She Was Missing a Chunk of Her Brain. It Didn’t Matter

WIRED Magazine, April 2022

The Remarkable Brain of a Carpet Cleaner Who Speaks 24 Languages

The Washington Post, April 2022

Individual Neurons Responsible for Complex Social Reasoning in Humans Identified

MGH News and Public Affairs, March 2021

To the Brain, Reading Computer Code Is Not the Same as Reading Language

MIT News, December 2020

Uncovering the Functional Architecture of a Historic Brain Area

MIBR News, March 2020

Word Play

MIBR News, October 2019

Can We Think Without Language?

MIBR News, May 2019

Brain’s Language Center Has Multiple Roles

MIT News, October 2012

Localizing Language in the Brain

MIT News, September 2011