{
  "id": 16176950,
  "title": "Large language models poorly capture how word order shapes representations of sentence meaning in the human brain",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/23/large-language-models-poorly-capture-how-word-order-shapes",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-23T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "eLife",
    "slug": "elife",
    "url": "https://elifesciences.org/articles/108442"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Large language models based on the transformer architecture are now capable of producing human-like language. But do they encode and process linguistic meaning in a human-like way? Here, we address this question by analysing 7T fMRI data from 30 participants reading 108 sentences each. These sentences are carefully designed to disentangle sentence structure from word meaning, thereby testing…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}