In the last century, French sociologist Maurice Halbwachs declared that personal memories are influenced by their social contexts. From this perspective, the memory function of individuals cannot be ...

Often when describing patterns, they are placed in one of two categories: organic or geometric. Organic designs are ones ...

Decision making often requires simultaneously learning about and combining evidence from various sources of information. However, when making inferences from these sources, humans show systematic ...

We all come in different shapes and sizes, and some of us are better at flattering our figures than others. How do you hide that thigh or lengthen that leg? Cindi Leive of Glamour magazine and the ...

Thanks to an array of electrodes implanted in their brains, two monkeys were able to “see” and recognize individual letter shapes — without ever having to use their eyes, as New Scientist reports. The ...