Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. Language is a beautifully intricate system that allows us to express our ...

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world,” observed philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in 1922. We might ask, accordingly, how does language shape reality, arbitrating human experience of ...

Zagreb-born artist Nora Turato transforms everyday fragments of speech and text into a mirror of our shared unconscious The omnipresence of language, in its countless forms, is the foundation of ...

Language shapes how we see the world. We use it to make sense of our reality. We use it to label people and things around us. Label something beautiful, and you acknowledge its uniqueness, elevate its ...

If we English speakers had more words to describe love—more colors to paint with, so to speak—might our experience of connection and intimacy be different, perhaps even richer? If questions like this ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Quote card by Opinion. In 2022, the launch of the large language model ChatGPT shook the world. It ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. AI researcher working with the UN and others to drive social change. Ever notice how ChatGPT seems to "get" you better some days ...

THE 7400 or so languages in use today speak to the fact that our species is primed to communicate. But while it is tempting to view language as merely a consequence of our extraordinary cognitive ...

People who speak a language that has multiple words for different shades of colour perceive the shades more quickly. Bees have a phenomenal ability to perceive different shades of colour, and their ...