Cognitive scientist Benjamin K. Bergen’s Louder Than Words: The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning recounts that the parts of the brain engaged when throwing a baseball also fire up when ...

According to LeDoux, the brain economizes by relying on habits and automatic responses, reserving the more energetically ...

Iron overload may drive neurodegeneration by inducing oxidative stress, exacerbating amyloid toxicity, disrupting tau protein ...

Journal of Advertising, Vol. 3, No. 1 (1974), pp. 16-20 (5 pages) Most of the recent work on meaning (often labeled structural semantics) has been based upon the assumption that there is a semantic ...

A new study suggests that psychological well-being may be crucial for healthy aging. Studies of Blue Zones, regions where ...

New UC Davis research links sense of purpose to lower dementia risk. Adults with strong purpose in life were 28% less likely ...

Experts are calling for the removal of cognitive criteria as core diagnostic features for bvFTD, one of the most common forms ...

Higher carbohydrate intake is associated with increased MRI-detected vascular brain injury and reduced cognitive performance.