Language can often be overlooked in conversations, seen only as a vessel to communicate ideas. But for many living with […] ...

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development ...

Co-authored with Sayuri Hayakawa, Ph.D. As Japan's Emperor Akihito stepped down from the Chrysanthemum Throne in the country's first abdication in 200 years, Naruhito officially became the new Emperor ...

Languages are complex and our words are powerful. Cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky discusses how even small variations in language may mean big... Does language shape how we think? Part 2 of the ...

Lisa Bainham explains how language can make or break a conversation at a crucial moment in a patient's experience of your ...

THE 7400 or so languages in use today speak to the fact that our species is primed to communicate. But while it is tempting to view language as merely a consequence of our extraordinary cognitive ...

Zagreb-born artist Nora Turato transforms everyday fragments of speech and text into a mirror of our shared unconscious The omnipresence of language, in its countless forms, is the foundation of ...

A student recently told me that they didn’t see themselves as “a creative”, just as someone who was studying a creative subject. That sentence revealed something important. Labels quickly become ...