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A Broken Employment System Leaves Autistic Adults Stranded
Only 1.1 percent of autistic adults in the U.S. access key publicly funded employment services. A broken disability service system is why
Only 1.1 percent of autistic adults in the U.S. access key publicly funded employment services. A broken disability service system is why
Are you working really hard to learn something? Remember this counterintuitive fact, and you might improve your learning curve.
New research suggests that blood clotting from COVID infections could contribute to long-term brain fog and other cognitive issues
When criminal behavior overlaps with degenerative cognitive disease, the justice system often falters
Hearing aids may help maintain better brain functions in older people and better health overall.
Where is the line between knowing and guessing?
The attentive and endearing doggy head tilt might indicate your pup is trying to process what you’re saying
Multitasking can occupy attention longer than people anticipate
The Barbie movie’s plastic pink world might not be that fantastic in real life
Very small delays in swing jazz point to our evolution as a supremely auditory species.
Older people show significant cognitive benefits from learning, provided they have the opportunity to do so
Computer modeling explains a key facet of bees’ decision-making skills—something only seen previously in humans and other primates
Extraordinary claims about the small-brained human relative Homo naledi challenge prevailing view of cognitive evolution
Adverse early childhood experience leaves persisting traces in brain structure, highlighting the importance of preventive measures for healthy brain development
Image-generating AI is getting better at re-creating what people are looking at from their fMRI data. But this isn’t mind reading—yet
Plato was right: newborns do math
Does this all feel a little familiar? Called déjà vu, that sensation may be your brain correcting its own errors
A new finding that humans can correctly interpret the gestures of chimps and bonobos adds to growing research that suggests that human language may have evolved from a dictionary of hand and body signals...
Letters to the editor for the June 2022 issue of Scientific American
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