Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation. — Rumi Source: Pixabay [Article revised on 24 November 2020.] Time heaved a gentle sigh as the wind swept through the willows.

Jonathan Schooler pursues research on consciousness, memory, the relationship between language and thought, creativity, problem-solving, and decision-making. He is particularly interested in exploring ...

No other faculty of mind differentiates human beings from other species as does language. We use it to encode ideas, to pass knowledge on to subsequent generations, to think, to communicate, to ...

Humans have been expressing thoughts with language for tens (or perhaps hundreds) of thousands of years. It's a hallmark of our species — so much so that scientists once speculated that the capacity ...

A thief sneaks into a museum late at night. They pass by a pair of statues—or were they suits of armor? You see them take a necklace. Or wait. Didn’t the news report say it was a watch? Our memories ...

If you’ve been paying attention to how Russian President Vladimir Putin talks about the war in Ukraine, you may have noticed a pattern. Putin often uses words to mean exactly the opposite of what they ...

Science suggests that words aren't strictly necessary for reasoning. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Humans have been expressing ...