Cognition

Having eight to 12 drinks per week was linked to hippocampus shrinkage in a study of several hundred Londoners

Given its central role in our mental life working memory may become important in our quest to understand consciousness itself

IBM AI expert Murray Campbell reflects on the machine’s long, bumpy road to victory over chess champ Garry Kasparov

A Caltech team has deciphered the way we identify faces, re-creating what the brain sees from its electrical activity

Alison Gopnik, author of “Making AI Human” in Scientific American’s June issue describes the use of Bayesian statistics to outline how youngsters infer the basics of cause and effect.

Artificial intelligence has staged a revival by starting to incorporate what we know about how children learn

One distinguished psychologist explains why he believes this is so and how to reverse course

Insights about imagination from a discussion with comedians

A long-running project in Africa challenges “the social brain hypothesis”

Surprises turn up in scans of the newly literate—a possible boon for dyslexics  

Why growls matter for people and dogs

Machines that can read and react to social cues may be more acceptable companions and caretakers