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. Follow Joshua K. Hartshorne on Twitter @jkhartshorne

Mind & Brain

Get Involved in Citizen Science of the Mind

Citizen science projects finally start exploring the mind

January 8, 2014 — Joshua K. Hartshorne

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.

September 23, 2013 — Joshua K. Hartshorne

Mind & Brain

How to Understand the Deep Structures of Language

In an alternative to Chomsky’s "Universal Grammar," scientists explore language’s fundamental design constraints

September 17, 2013 — Joshua K. Hartshorne

Technology

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

March 10, 2011 — Joshua K. Hartshorne

Behavior

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

January 11, 2010 — Joshua K. Hartshorne