“SHAPE: The system of shape representations in cognition, development and across languages,” encompasses the way that shape figures into the learning of 44 different languages — systematically sampled ...

For decades, scientists have asked whether language simply reports conscious thought or helps shape it. New insights from ...

The interplay between language and colour perception has emerged as a pivotal topic in recent cognitive neuroscience and psycholinguistic research. Accumulating evidence suggests that the words we use ...

People who speak a language that has multiple words for different shades of colour perceive the shades more quickly. Bees have a phenomenal ability to perceive different shades of colour, and their ...

After patient RDS (identified only by his initials for privacy) suffered a stroke, he experienced a rare and unusual side effect: when he saw something red, blue, green, or any other chromatic hue, he ...