Cognitive science

A group of prominent biologists and philosophers announced a new consensus: There’s “a realistic possibility” that insects, octopuses, crustaceans, fish and other overlooked animals experience consciousness.

The discovery that the brain has different systems for representing small and large numbers provokes new questions about memory, attention and mathematics.

Researchers uncover striking parallels in the ways that humans and machine learning models acquire language skills.

Feelings of loneliness prompt changes in the brain that further isolate people from social contact.

How does consciousness arise in mere flesh and blood? To the neuroscientist Anil Seth, our organic bodies are the key to the experience.

Crows recently demonstrated an understanding of the concept of zero. It’s only the latest evidence of animals’ talents for numerical abstraction — which may still differ from our own grasp of numbers.

To build a general artificial intelligence, we may need to know more about our own minds, argues the computer scientist Melanie Mitchell.

By digging out signals hidden within the brain’s electrical chatter, scientists are getting new insights into sleep, aging and more.

Neuroscience has found that gestures are not merely important as tools of expression but as guides of cognition and perception.