It’s a bizarre scourge afflicting editors and writers, casual readers, and pretty much anyone pondering a word for any length of time. Consider the word flower. F-l-o-w-e-r. Flowers. The flower in the ...

Subjects in the experiments behind this semantic map had to sit in an fMRI for hours at a time, listening to The Moth Radio Hour, a storytelling podcast. Later, the researchers would painstakingly ...

The brain is incredibly complex and mysterious. Just one layer of understanding unveils hundreds of new questions. Such is the case in a study published in Nature that revealed a "semantic atlas" of ...