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For decades, researchers studying the cognitive science of language acquisition have wrestled with a fundamental question – how important is experience in learning a language? And how does that experience affect language development?

The role of experience is difficult to study because people typically process the input data they experience –  the language they’re exposed to through daily life, interacting with others, watching videos, listening to conversations and media, etc. – and create language through

Scouring more than a century of studies, Cornell researchers found left-handers are actually underrepresented in the most creative fields, contrary to popular perception.

Eventual proof of a clear association between genes that express a salivary enzyme and Type 2 diabetes could lead to genetically testing people at birth to predict their susceptibility.

Feelings, although central to human existence, are our most mysterious and subjective sense. Feelings, we are told, are personal and internal, while reality is physical and external. New research published in Nature Communications combines machine learning, perception, neuroscience, and generative AI to reveal that the brain may treat feelings as real as any aspect of the physical facts of the external world. 

It has been long understood that feelings and emotions emerge from a complex

Daniel Berry, assistant professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, and graduate students in his lab have identified the cellular and molecular mechanisms that govern adaptive thermogenesis, a biological process that researchers believe could be the key to treating obesity, type 2 diabetes and other metabolic disorders.

Their study, published in the journal Cell Reports, outlines the complex intra-organ communication that allows brown adipose tissue to burn calories to produce heat to