Cognitive scientist Benjamin K. Bergen’s Louder Than Words: The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning recounts that the parts of the brain engaged when throwing a baseball also fire up when ...

Idioms are quirky, playful, and sometimes downright strange and that is exactly what makes them so fascinating. Expressions like “spill the beans” or “estar en las nubes” (“to be in the clouds”) don’t ...

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.