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

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

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

Tech

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 & Society

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