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Imagine you’re studying animals and you notice a pattern – bigger animals tend to have longer names. Curious, you decide to dig deeper and explore if this pattern holds true in different groups of animals. That’s exactly what the scientists did in a recent study, but instead of animals, they focused on words in different […]
Imagine a BBQ where everyone brings different types of food: burgers, hotdogs, salads, and desserts. Each dish is delicious on its own, but when they all come together, it creates a feast of flavors! In the ’90s, language researchers and learning theorists were like separate dishes at a potluck, not really mixing together. This has […]
Just like a telescope must expand its lens to capture the vast cosmos, cognitive scientists need to broaden their scope beyond data acquisition and pattern extraction. To truly understand the intricate workings of the mind, we must focus on the problems that cognitive processes are designed to solve. It’s like realizing that studying the brushstrokes […]
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