Insight occurs when a person suddenly reinterprets a stimulus, situation, or event to produce
a nonobvious, nondominant interpretation. This can take the form of a solution to a problem …

To evaluate the relative role of left and right hemispheres (RH) and describe the functional
anatomy of RH during ortholinguistic tasks, we re-analyzed the 128 papers of a former left …

Current large language models (LLMs) rely on word prediction as their backbone pretraining
task. Although word prediction is an important mechanism underlying language processing …

People sometimes solve problems with a unique process called insight, accompanied by an
“Aha!” experience. It has long been unclear whether different cognitive and neural …

Comprehension of natural language–stories, conversations, text–is very simple for those
doing the comprehending and very complex for cognitive neuroscientists. It also presents a …

Stories are used extensively for human communication; both the comprehension and
production of oral and written narratives constitute a fundamental part of our experience …

These are just a few of the truly creative accomplishments of our species. When truly
creative ideas, pieces of art, or behavior occur, we all want to know: How did that happen …

Although there is no shortage of definitions for pragmatics the received wisdom is
that'pragmatics' simply cannot be coherently defined. In this groundbreaking book Mira Ariel …

In one experiment, we tested for an association between semantic activation in the right
hemisphere (RH) and left hemisphere (LH) and the Aha! experience when people recognize …

Highlights•The anatomic organization for language is less lateralized than
assumed.•Speech and language processing are mediated by segregated concurrent …