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 ...

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 ...

A new study suggests that psychological well-being may be crucial for healthy aging. Studies of Blue Zones, regions where ...

Iron overload may drive neurodegeneration by inducing oxidative stress, exacerbating amyloid toxicity, disrupting tau protein ...

This is the first post in a series. For me, cognition is the quiet engine of my existence. It shapes how we interpret reality, how we construct meaning, and how we define intelligence itself. For ...

Fact checked by Nick Blackmer A new study found a link between consuming more artificial sweeteners and cognitive decline.Researchers are still learning more, but it’s possible that these sweeteners ...

New UC Davis research links sense of purpose to lower dementia risk. Adults with strong purpose in life were 28% less likely ...

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