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Bookmark Children of Hoarders on Leaving the Cluttered Nest
In dealing with her mother’s home in Minneapolis, Ms. Sholl has spent much of her life alternating between feeling shame about its squalid condition and attempting to rid it of the…

May 4 2012, 3:45am | Comments
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Artificial Intelligence Could Be on Brink of Passing Turing Test

April 14 2012, 8:37am | Comments
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Gamers Outdo Computers at Matching Up Disease Genes

March 27 2012, 7:58am | Comments
Bookmark Is mental time travel what makes us human?
A stonishing animals show up everywhere these days. Cooperative apes, grief-stricken elephants, empathetic cats and dogs crowd our bookshop shelves. It’s all the rage to plumb the cognitive and emotional depths…

October 28 2011, 10:32am | Comments
Bookmark Can the Brain Explain Your Mind?
Is studying the brain a good way to understand the mind? Does psychology stand to brain anatomy as physiology stands to body anatomy? In the case of the body, physiological functions—walking,…

March 16 2011, 11:30am | Comments
Bookmark Is It Time to Welcome Our New Computer Overlords?
"Watson is a computer that uncovers meaning in our language, and pinpoints the right answer, instantly. It uses deep analytics to answer questions computers never could before, even the ones on…

February 17 2011, 3:38pm | Comments
Bookmark The Cognitive Program of Constructivism and a Reality that Remains Unknown
by Niklas Luhmann The source of a distinction's guaranteeing reality lies in its own operative unity. It is, however, precisely as this unity that the distinction cannot be observed--except by means…

November 12 2010, 7:10am | Comments
Bookmark Next Big Thing - Literary Scholars Turn to Science
This layered process of figuring out what someone else is thinking — of mind reading — is both a common literary device and an essential survival skill. Why human beings are…

April 6 2010, 12:04pm | Comments
Bookmark Conceiving God: the Cognitive Origin and Evolution of Religion
Atheists like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens confront the faithful head-on, but there may be another way to dispel religious beliefs. I am not so sure about this. In my experience,…

April 4 2010, 6:56am | Comments
Bookmark The cognitive benefits of time-space synaesthesia
SYNAESTHESIA is a neurological condition in which there is a merging of the senses, so that activity in one sensory modality elicits sensations in another. Although first described by Francis Galton…

December 7 2009, 5:11pm | Comments
Bookmark Thinking literally
Drawing on philosophy and linguistics, cognitive scientists have begun to see the basic metaphors that we use all the time not just as turns of phrase, but as keys to the…

September 28 2009, 8:59am | Comments
Bookmark Exploring Empathic Space: Correlates of Perspective Transformation Ability and Biases in Spatial…
Empathy involves, in part, the ability to simulate the internal states of others. The authors hypothesized that our ability to manipulate, rotate and simulate mental representations of the physical world, including…

June 23 2009, 2:42pm | Comments

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