Scientists have long focused on quantifying fear and other negative emotions in animals. Now they’re trying to measure positive feelings — and it’s a challenge.
The Nature of Things explores how dogs might be using human language with the help of buttons on a soundboard.
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Researchers documented the activity of neurons that shape directional navigation as bats explored a remote island off the ...
Kenneth Valpey envisions a world where devotional practices foster inclusive communities that extend care to all beings by ...
Scientists have discovered that the human brain understands spoken language in a way that closely resembles how advanced AI language models work. By tracking brain activity as people listened to a ...
A popular idea suggests a link between big brains and a rich social life, but octopuses don't fit the pattern, which suggests ...
Empathy is a foundational therapeutic tool. So is attensity, a revitalized way to define attention. From behaviorists to bed-rotting, a short history of this lost term of art.