It can be hard to understand a non-native speaker of your own language. But conversation is a two-way street and linguists are figuring out how native listeners can improve their half of the interaction.
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The self-help books are full of advice on how to get meaning in life, but it helps to understand what meaning actually is. Science may be able to provide some answers.
If consciousness is a by-product of our brains’ nonconscious processes, where does that leave us?
Multitasking may not be what you think it is and it might not even help you be more productive if you choose to do the wrong things at the same time.
Even people who claim to hate routines probably follow quite a few.
It’s a psychological quirk that when something becomes rarer, people may spot it in more places than ever. What is the ‘concept creep’ that lets context change how we categorize the world around us?
Persistence and self-control are valuable traits that can help kids succeed in school and beyond. A new study suggests infants can learn stick-to-itiveness by watching adults persist in a difficult task.
People across the globe all see millions of distinct colors. But the terms we use to describe them vary across cultures. New cognitive science research suggests it’s about what we want to communicate.
Feel like something will be easy to remember? Your prediction may be influenced by how clearly the information was presented in the first place.
Practice may not make perfect, suggests new study.
Quirks of human psychology can pose problems for science communicators trying to cover controversial topics. Recognizing what cognitive science knows about how we deal with new information could help.
Humans have limited ability to understand complexity, but there are serious dangers if we oversimplify things too much.
Thinking isn’t just about grey matter. It can develop from counting your pinkies too.
Is there weight to claims that reading can make you a better person – or are they just tall tales?
Nearly everyone can’t tickle themselves and it’s all to do with how our brains see and perceive movement.
Google’s image recognition project has not only generated some disturbing images but also tells us something about how we humans identify objects we see.
Our natural difficulties in thinking about the future, low probabilities and considering risk make many of our views about nuclear power problematic.
My mum and dad are troopers. Every morning, in an effort to stave off old age and dry rot, they down a tablespoon of oily, stinky fish oil. This is done without any obvious signs of distress – clearly…
Throughout history, whenever new technologies have emerged that change our means of production and ability to communicate they have tended to transform society. The rapid technological development of the…
In 1959, John Howard Griffin, a white American writer, underwent medical treatments to change his skin appearance and present himself as a black man. He then traveled through the segregated US south to…
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