Bigger has defined AI from day one. New data says task-specific small models beat frontier LLMs on accuracy, cost and speed — and save money.

Practising a tool-using task helps people do better in a test of complex language understanding – and the benefits go the other way too. The crossover may happen because some of the same parts of the ...

Shyness can influence a child’s performance in language assessments, depending on the level of social interaction required to complete the test. A recent study from SMU psychologist Sarah Kucker and a ...

A group of neuroscientists argue that our words are primarily for communicating, not for reasoning. By Carl Zimmer For thousands of years, philosophers have argued about the purpose of language. Plato ...

Language has traditionally been considered a complex skill which mobilises brain networks specifically dedicated to linguistic processing. But in recent years, neuroscience research has returned to ...