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 ...

Gestures and visual animations can help reveal the cognitive origins of meaning, indicating that our minds can assign a linguistic structure to new informational content 'on the fly' -- even if it is ...

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 ...

Brain iron measured with quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) MRI predicted cognitive decline in healthy adults, a ...

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

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

Oct. 1, 2024 — Charles Dickens, the famous 19th-century British novelist, believed that "the best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and with a purpose.” Modern science backs him up.