Abstract English is the dominant language in the study of human cognition and behavior: the
individuals studied by cognitive scientists, as well as most of the scientists themselves, are …

There is intense public interest in questions surrounding how children learn to read and how
they can best be taught. Research in psychological science has provided answers to many …

Deep learning algorithms trained to predict masked words from large amount of text have
recently been shown to generate activations similar to those of the human brain. However …

Philosopher Ned Block argues in this book that there is a" joint in nature" between
perception and cognition and that by exploring the nature of that joint, one can solve …

“This is an important book and likely the most thoughtful of the year in the social sciences...
Highly recommended, it is likely to prove one of the most thought-provoking books of the …

Reason, we are told, is what makes us human, the source of our knowledge and wisdom. If
reason is so useful, why didn't it also evolve in other animals? If reason is that reliable, why …

Abstract Language is a key human faculty for communication and interaction that provides
invaluable insight into the human mind. Previous work has dissected different linguistic …

How is music represented in the brain? While neuroimaging has revealed some spatial
segregation between responses to music versus other sounds, little is known about the …

The inferior longitudinal fasciculus (ILF) is a long-range, associative white matter pathway
that connects the occipital and temporal-occipital areas of the brain to the anterior temporal …

The acquisition of literacy transforms the human brain. By reviewing studies of illiterate
subjects, we propose specific hypotheses on how the functions of core brain systems are …