Language feels simple when we use it. We talk, we text, we listen, and words seem to appear naturally from thought. But the ...

Co-authored with Sayuri Hayakawa, Ph.D. As Japan's Emperor Akihito stepped down from the Chrysanthemum Throne in the country's first abdication in 200 years, Naruhito officially became the new Emperor ...

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

THE 7400 or so languages in use today speak to the fact that our species is primed to communicate. But while it is tempting to view language as merely a consequence of our extraordinary cognitive ...

Zagreb-born artist Nora Turato transforms everyday fragments of speech and text into a mirror of our shared unconscious The omnipresence of language, in its countless forms, is the foundation of ...

Language can often be overlooked in conversations, seen only as a vessel to communicate ideas. But for many living with […] ...