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September 28, 2018September 25, 2018  by Thomas Wilschut

Restless, Ever-Changing Memory

Memory is a puzzling concept that has intrigued scientists as well as lay people for decades. Patients with total amnesia give us a sense of how essential memory is: our lives depend on it. In this blog post, the challenge of describing memory is examined from a new perspective.

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July 26, 2017  by Elena Sophia Pohl

Why you are not only your brain:

Exploring Embodied Language

This blog post givey insight into the theory of Embodied Language. While many cognitive scientists see the brain as having causal priority when it comes the formation of cognition and behavior, it seems that our body influences a variety of cognitive task such as reasoning and language.

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