Cognition

Just ask Schopenhauer

For those with developmental topographical disorientation, ordinary travel is extraordinarily difficult

People attribute the lack of women in STEM fields to external factors but attribute the lack of men in helping professions to internal ones

Well more than 100 distinct sign languages exist worldwide, with each having features that made it possible for researchers to create an evolutionary tree of their lineages.

Some wolf pups will play fetch with a stranger, suggesting that an ability to playfully interact with people could have come before, and played a role in, dog domestication.

Some products of our imaginations seem to spring from sources beyond our everyday selves.

The first research center of its kind in the country is bringing renewed rigor to the investigation of the drugs’ therapeutic uses

Philosopher Philip Goff answers questions about “panpsychism”

Scientists observed two Atlantic puffins using sticks to scratch themselves—the first known instance of seabirds using tools. Christopher Intagliata reports. 

Participants in a freewheeling exploration of nonmaterialist, mystical accounts of reality critique a journalist’s critique

Promoting “healthspan” involves exercise and games

Free will must exist if some of us have more of it than others