Sentences with greater linguistic complexity are most likely to fire up a key brain language processing center, according to a study that employed an artificial language network. With help from an ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Words, like people, can achieve a lot more ...

Have you ever read your own sentence and felt that something sounds a little stiff or robotic? Do you sometimes think your writing is correct but still not smooth enough? If yes, you are not alone.

Most writers assume they write well. Yet most writers grapple with the reality of writing as a black box. That is, we know that writing works, but we’re a bit fuzzy on what makes readers grasp the ...

The length of a sentence isn’t what makes it hard to understand— it’s how long you have to wait for a phrase to be completed. When you’re reading a sentence, you don’t understand it word by word, but ...