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Over nearly two decades as a practicing surgeon and scientist, Dr. Justin Sacks ’93 has advised his fair share of interns. In some cases, they received stipends through grant funding, but Sacks noticed that many struggled to pay for housing and other expenses. Currently chief of plastic and reconstructive surgery at Washington University (WashU) School of Medicine in St. Louis and professor of surgery/Sidney M. Jr. and Robert H. Shoenberg Chair, Sacks wondered why many

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.