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Humans can detect buried objects without touching them, sensing faint pressure ripples in sand. Scientists are calling this ...

Neural and computational evidence reveals that real-world size is a temporally late, semantically grounded, and hierarchically stable dimension of object representation in both human brains and ...

For people, matching what they see on the ground to a map is second nature. For computers, it has been a major challenge. A ...

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Language is more strongly controlled by the left half of the brain, while other functions are more strongly controlled by the ...

How does mimicry affect the way we judge other people? Whose behavior do we imitate, and in what situations? It turns out that we are more likely to mimic people who express joy, and we perceive those ...

Ecological myopia interprets climate change as a conventional environmental problem rather than as a planetary one. It ...