In the movie Hoppers, scientists “hop” human consciousness into animal-like robots to talk to other species. We asked the ...
A surprising new study shows that baby chickens react the same way that humans do when tested for something called the "bouba ...
Human reading looks so ordinary that it is easy to treat it as the default way brains extract meaning from marks. Yet when I look at what animals can do with symbols, numbers, and sounds, the picture ...
Nature has always loved surprises. Just when we think we understand how the world works, an animal comes along and quietly breaks all the rules. Some creatures glow in the dark, some survive without ...
Animals can’t talk like humans do – here’s why the hunt for their languages has left us empty‑handed
Anna Jon-And receives funding from from the Swedish Research Council and has received funding from Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Johan Lind has received funding from the Swedish Research ...
Does “bouba” sound round to you? How about “maluma”? Neither are real words, but we’ve known for decades that people who hear them tend to associate them with round objects. There have been plenty of ...
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