Mind & BrainJanuary 1, 2014
Get Involved in Citizen Science of the Mind
Citizen science projects finally start exploring the mind
Stories by Joshua K. Hartshorne
Joshua K. Hartshorne is a Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA post-doctoral fellow in the Computational Cognitive Science group at MIT and an occasional contributor to Scientific American Mind. He conducts research both in his brick-and-mortar laboratory and online at GamesWithWords.org. You can follow him on Twitter at @jkhartshorne.
September 23, 2013
Citizen scientists decode meaning, memory and laughter
Citizen Science – projects which involve collaboration between professional scientists and teams of enthusiastic amateurs — is big these days.
Mind & BrainSeptember 17, 2013
How to Understand the Deep Structures of Language
In an alternative to Chomsky’s "Universal Grammar," scientists explore language’s fundamental design constraints
TechnologyMarch 1, 2011
Where Are the Talking Robots?
Teaching a machine to speak has been a dream for decades. First, we have to figure out how we know what we know about language
BehaviorJanuary 1, 2010
How Birth Order Affects Your Personality
For decades the evidence has been inconclusive, but new studies show that family position may truly affect intelligence and personality