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

Today, humans speak over 7,000 languages, yet all of them might share a common origin that dates back at least 135,000 years. A new review suggests that a fundamental feature of human language was ...

Language shapes the way we view our world. In the field of wildlife conservation, even very subtle word choices drive peoples’ perceptions around individual species or situations. These word choices ...

“SHAPE: The system of shape representations in cognition, development and across languages,” encompasses the way that shape figures into the learning of 44 different languages — systematically sampled ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I examine an intriguing speculation that ...