Computers are one of those artifacts of modern life that we love to hate. They are powerful, pervasive, intrusive and, let’s face it, clumsy to use. Today’s applications require us to break down ...

Cognitive scientist Benjamin K. Bergen’s Louder Than Words: The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning recounts that the parts of the brain engaged when throwing a baseball also fire up when ...

Our brains are remarkable instruments, capable of extraordinary feats of concentration and problem-solving. Yet in today's ...

Journal of Advertising, Vol. 3, No. 1 (1974), pp. 16-20 (5 pages) Most of the recent work on meaning (often labeled structural semantics) has been based upon the assumption that there is a semantic ...

This is the first post in a series. For me, cognition is the quiet engine of my existence. It shapes how we interpret reality, how we construct meaning, and how we define intelligence itself. For ...

AI output feels like a nearly free asset, but it comes with a hidden liability. Someone has to cough up the brain power to ...