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For over fifty years, cognitive science divided memory into two systems: episodic (personal experiences) and semantic (facts about the world). A new fMRI study from Nottingham and Cambridge found no measurable neural difference between the two. The wall between the rooms was ours, not the brain's.
For seventy years, the dominant theory of language has rested on a beautiful idea: that every sentence you speak is a tree. Not literally, of course. But since…
A new paper in Nature Human Behaviour proves mathematically that human language optimises for cognitive ease, not information density. The brain would rather take the long way home — and that preference explains why seven thousand languages all look roughly the same.
Forty thousand years ago, someone sat in a cave in what is now southwestern Germany and carved a small mammoth from a piece of tusk. Then, with evident deliber…
In 1934, Vygotsky argued that children learn to think by talking to themselves — language isn't a report on thought, it is thought. In 2026, an AI lab in Okinawa proved him right with machines. What a paper on 'mumbling' AI reveals about the nature of cognition, and a butler's quiet reflection on his own inner voice.