Semantic cognition encompasses human performance based on knowledge about the properties of objects, relations among objects and word meanings. One approach to semantic cognition has arisen within the ...

A substantial body of evidence from both anatomical and physiological studies supports the idea that cognitive processes depend on interactions among distributed neuronal populations and brain regions ...

Here’s David Attenborough, chilling out on a rock in the middle of Africa, with four lumps of plasticine. The smallest one on the far left represents the brain of a bushbaby, a small primate that ...

Post 3 in the series on AI and the evolution of cognition. Cognition—the thing we’ve long treated as the crown jewel of intelligence—may not be the end of the story. It may be a scaffold or a step.