While working at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., the late cognitive neuroscientist Ursula Bellugi discovered that, much like spoken language, sign language was made up ...

A new cognitive science major within Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences was approved earlier this year. Now, the major, coordinated by director Prof. Shaun Nichols, cognitive science, and program ...

Studies suggest that practicing glossolalia may engage brain regions involved in language processing and cognitive control.

But an in-depth look at the science behind how language is developed reveals an interesting parallel between the science of reading and second language learning. In fact, the science of reading can ...

Cognitive science has expanded beyond its earlier focus on formalisms and an analogy between the mind and digital computers and has witnessed the ascent of more wide-ranging conceptions of cognition.

A new wave of AI research is attempting to tackle one of psychology’s oldest questions: whether the human mind can be unified ...