Have you heard things about COVID-19 that made you think, “Hang on — where did they get that idea? Is it correct?” Have you wondered why you haven’t seen stories in the media about X, Y or Z, when ...

Due to the complexity of the legal domain, reasoning about law cases is a very complex skill. For novices in law school, legal reasoning is even more complex because they have not yet acquired the ...

A new study explores how our brains synthesize concepts that allow us to organize and comprehend the world. The research, published by Cell Press in the September 24th issue of the journal Neuron, ...

Individuals' conceptual knowledge can flexibly influence emotion perception and the brain's representations of face categories, a study finds. Mounting behavioral evidence suggests that the perception ...

Amin, T.G. (2015). Conceptual metaphor and the study of conceptual change: Research synthesis and future directions. International Journal of Science Education , 37 ...

To understand the world, we arrange individual objects, people, and events into different categories or concepts. Concepts such as ‘the telephone’ consist primarily of visible features, i.e. shape and ...

On the evening of February 12, 2009, a Continental Connection commuter flight made its way through blustery weather between Newark, New Jersey, and Buffalo, New York. As is typical of commercial ...

Most people think of memory as a faithful, if incomplete, recording of the past—a kind of multimedia storehouse of experiences. But psychologists, neuroscientists and lawyers know better. Eyewitness ...