Feeling socially disconnected may lead us to lower our threshold for determining that another being is animate or alive, according to new research. "This increased sensitivity to animacy suggests that ...

Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, Vol. 371, No. 1686, Theme issue: Understanding self and other: from origins to disorders (19 January 2016), pp. 1-12 (12 pages) Although robots are ...

At first glance, a neuroscientist and a business school might seem an odd fit. But in fact economists have been paying increasing attention to how the brain works. The problem was that while the ...

In passive sentences such as The cake is being eaten by the clown, the first noun (cake) names the patient (acted-upon) and functions as the subject of the sentence. The present study used passive ...

Scientists have discovered why the more robots resemble humans, the more freaked out we get. Source: Photo by Maximalfocus on Unsplash Robots, androids, and artificial intelligence are being used more ...

In an age of artificial intelligence, there is an increasing number of tools and gadgets that speak to us, watch us, help us find our keys, and tell us about everything from the news to the weather.