This may come as a surprise to many parents and teachers that being quirky with words through sarcasm is a sign of a flexible and inventive mind. Sarcasm is the use of words or expressions to mean the ...

Scientists have developed a new system that can detect sarcasm in social media posts, and interpret it for people with autism and Asperger's syndrome who have difficulty understanding such statements.

Some of the adults in the group were healthy, but many of the test subjects had neurodegenerative diseases that cause certain parts of the brain to deteriorate. The UCSF team mapped their brains using ...

Artificial intelligence is becoming ever more sophisticated, finding its way into our work, our home and even our sex lives. As we let machines and technology steadily encroach on us, there are a few ...

Sarcasm comes in different shades. There’s existentially-driven sarcasm, a la The Good Place’s Eleanor Shellstrop, and dry, lighthearted satire reminiscent of Friends’ Chandler Bing, just to name a ...