KCTV5 sat down with Story and two of her friends, Kathy Linde and Chandra Jones, who are also moms, to see if they could figure out the coded meaning behind some emojis and acronyms.

“Can we decode meaning from the brain?” she continued. “In some ways they show that, yes, we can.” This language-decoding method had limitations, Dr. Huth and his colleagues noted.