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 ...

Individuals with coronary artery disease (CAD)—a constricting or blocking of blood vessels feeding the heart—face increased ...

Even if you’ve made peace with growing older, the outward signs of aging — graying hair, spotty skin, achy joints — are unavoidable. Likewise for the changes in the parts of the body you don’t see, ...

In recent years, colour vision abilities have been rather generously awarded to vari-ous invertebrates and even bacteria. This uncertainty of when to diagnose colour vi-sion stems in part from ...

Dyslexia, a neurobiological condition that affects how individuals read and spell, has come into the spotlight in K-12 ...