It wasn’t too long ago that talking to a computer and having it not only understand, but speak back, was confined to the realm of science fiction, like that of the shipboard computers of Star Trek.

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some parallels to LLMs.

Natural language processing (NLP) and speech processing at RIT is a research-active area led by Dr. Cecilia Alm’s and Dr. Marcos Zampieri’s laboratories. The groups’ research projects, supported by ...