Pinker's new book reveals how recursive mentalizing—thinking about thinking—may be the hidden engine of human life, from ...

The oddities of social life—and our efforts to cooperate and coordinate—may turn on our assumptions about the knowledge we share.

In a new book, the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argues that an awareness that everyone knows what you know is a powerful driver of human social life. By Dennis Duncan Dennis Duncan teaches ...

The findings suggest that the acquisition of the modern NOVA1 variant may have protected us from the detrimental effects of ...

Our ability to store information about familiar objects depends on the connection between visual and language processing regions in the brain, according to a new study. Our ability to store ...

Approximately 10% of the human population is left-handed. Among them, one in five exhibits a peculiar brain phenomenon known as atypical language lateralization. While most people attribute their ...