A unique study has thrown fascinating new light on how young children begin to understand the meaning of words. The findings by the researchers, from The University of Manchester are published in the ...

“He’s a pathological liar.” “She’s a narcissist.” “They’re all gaslighting me!” We’ve all uttered some form of hyperbole when discussing another person’s behavior, and while many terms have become ...

For decades, scientists have worked to understand how the brain turns thoughts into words and words into meaning. Language is ...

In their classic 1998 textbook on cognitive neuroscience, Michael Gazzaniga, Richard Ivry, and George Mangun made a sobering observation: there was no clear mapping between how we process language and ...