Among the sublime concepts that humans grasp intuitively is the concept of recursion, where something contains a kind of repetition of itself stretching out to infinity. Any "movie within a movie" ...

In a new article appearing in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, led by Cory Shain and Hope Kean, explore how the human brain shows ...

Humans are storytelling beings. As far as we know, no other species has the capacity for language and ability to use it in endlessly creative ways. From our earliest days, we name and describe things.