For French writer Laurent Binet, this seemingly innocuous (albeit tragic) accident was in fact a far more nefarious event, one that is the basis for his compelling new novel. In The 7th Function of ...

Recursive Mentalizing Explains More Than You Think—Mediated by the Power of Language Recursive mentalizing is a theme that has intrigued Pinker for decades. In his previous books, he has examined how ...

In Hans Christian Andersen's folktale, The Emperor's New Clothes, when a child cries out that the emperor is naked, he isn't revealing a secret. Everyone already knows it. What changes in that instant ...

Naming ( Table 3) is tested by asking the patient to name objects around the room, body parts, or line drawings, such as those in the Boston Naming Test. [15] Naming is typically impaired in dementia, ...

Wild orangutans use multi-layered recursive vocal patterns that vary with danger, challenging the idea that only humans use complex, structured communication. In a groundbreaking study from the ...

Researchers have found that wild orangutans vocalize with a layered complexity previously thought to be unique to human communication, suggesting a much older evolutionary origin. In groundbreaking ...

In groundbreaking work from The University of Warwick, researchers have found that wild orangutans vocalise with a layered complexity previously thought to be unique to human communication, suggesting ...

C++ is at the heart of Bloomberg’s infrastructure, powering everything from low-level libraries to highly performant financial applications, analytics, and trading systems. Maintaining a best-in-class ...

In the world of programming languages it often feels like being stuck in a Groundhog Day-esque loop through purgatory, as effectively the same problems are being solved over and over, with previous ...