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One of the most profound effects of a situationship is its impact on self-worth. Being in an undefined relationship can lead ...

1 University of Pavia, Department of Brain and Bhavioural Sciences, Italy 2 Centro di Neurocognizione, Epistemologia e Sintassi teorica, IUSS, Italy Understanding metaphors requires to go beyond the ...

The familiar fight between “mind as software” and “mind as biology” may be a false choice. This work proposes biological computationalism: the idea that brains compute, but not in the abstract, symbol ...

What is the neuropsychological basis for the brain's ever-changing contextualized goals? I explore this question from the perspective of the Affect Management Framework (AMF).

A growing number of medical experts and law enforcement officials are reversing testimony that put parents behind bars. But ...

Unfinished tasks occupy your brain differently than completed ones. Discover why "done" matters more than "perfect"—and how to engineer closure.

When we are awake, we seem to experience a continuous stream of sensations, reflections, memories, and impressions that make ...

The ideas presented in George Lakoff and Srini Narayanan's The Neural Mind are fascinating, but the writing is far less ...

A team of UChicago psychology researchers used fMRI scans to learn why certain moments carry such lasting power ...

A new theoretical framework argues that the long-standing split between computational functionalism and biological naturalism misses how real brains actually compute.