Researchers have created a new map of the human brain which shows where we organize words depending on their meaning—and it could help us read minds more accurately than ever. Scientists from the ...

Discover a groundbreaking semantic atlas of the human brain mapping how brain areas respond to words and meanings. The patches in the centre of the image show the cerebral cortex unfolded into a flat ...

U.S. playwright Rita Mae Brown said: "Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going." That quote comes to mind looking at these fascinating ...

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley have created an interactive map of a person's brain showing which areas of the brain respond when they hear different words. The map shows how ...

What’s one word that you can’t seem to spell right? (For me, since I do a lot of writing about music, I’m often stumped by “Pharrell,” as in Pharrell Williams, the dude behind “Happy” and a ton of ...

A single word has the power to evoke great emotion in us. Take me, for example: The word "taxes" will literally bring me to tears, while "wine" is akin to winning the lottery. So what are each country ...