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Sometimes, our preference for certitude, our need to define things with conviction, closes us off from possibility.
The easier life gets, the more our intelligence atrophies
A new study of bilingual speakers suggests that a single “grammatical engine” in the brain can power multiple languages at once.
Researchers are at a loss for why people across cultures and ages, regardless of their dominant hand, have a natural bias toward wandering in a counterclockwise direction.
The woman, who typically speaks in single syllables, showed measurable improvements.
The ability to imagine — to play pretend — has long been thought to be unique to humans. A new study suggests one of our closest living relatives can do it too.
By playing pretend with an ape, scientists found a human hallmark in our closest living relative: the capacity for make-believe.