Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought that originally began to emerge in the 1970s due to dissatisfaction with formal approaches to language. As I explain in my book, ...

Gestures and visual animations can help reveal the cognitive origins of meaning, indicating that our minds can assign a linguistic structure to new informational content 'on the fly' -- even if it is ...

The Department of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University offers a Master of Arts in Cognitive Linguistics. Read on to learn more about our program. Prospective students often wonder how ...

Researchers identify a specialized "satellite" language network in the cerebellum, offering new insights into how the brain ...

I talked recently with Steven Pinker, author of The Language Instinct and other books about language and the mind, about his new book, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the ...

In a re-evaluation of Hockett's foundational features that have long dominated linguistic theory—concepts like "arbitrariness," "duality of patterning," and "displacement"—an international team of ...

For decades, psychologists have argued over a basic question. Can one grand theory explain the human mind, or do attention, ...

By examining factors such as working memory and emotional intelligence along with language background, our research moves beyond the idea of a simplistic “foreign language effect” and offers a more ...

Forget the hype about AI "solving" human cognition, new research suggests unified models like Centaur are just overfitted "black boxes" that fail to understand basic instructions.