If you’ve seen an esports competition, chances are that there was a big stage with about 10 gaming PCs, each with a young person behind it wearing a look of intense concentration. They may have been competing for upward of a million dollars, and at the moment of victory, the winning team suddenly started screaming in joy.

Some of...

Migraines are throbbing headaches^[1] often accompanied by nausea and increased sensitivity to light, sound and touch. Nearly 30 million Americans^[2] suffer from migraines, and almost 1 in 4 of them^[3] have at least four severe attacks each month. Three times as many women^[4] suffer from migraine headaches as men, and this disparity is even...

Language enables people to transmit thoughts to each other because each person’s brain responds similarly to the meaning of words. In our newly published research^[1], my colleagues^[2] and I^[3] developed a framework to model the brain activity of speakers as they engaged in face-to-face conversations.

We recorded the electrical activity of two...