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Sociologist Dustin Stoltz assesses the levels of creative thinking expressed in the work of elite consulting firms.


As language develops over time, its limits have forced us to economize.


“Neurosciences have had really nice growth in the last 10 or 15 years [at Lehigh], both in our undergraduate program and in our faculty,”


How humans perceive the world, acquire language skills, form semantic networks, and build and retain memories are some of the topics that will be discussed tomorrow (Wednesday, Aug.


The symposium was selected by Psychonomics Society as their sponsored 2016 collaborative symposium.


Brianna Eiter ’00 investigates cognitive factors that influence mine workers’ ability to identify mine site safety hazards:
by Jennifer Marangos


In the human brain, the cholinergic system is a modulatory neurotransmitter system involved in a variety of brain processes, including learning and memory, attention, and motor processes, among... Read More


Health care professionals learn that some categories of people are more likely than others to manifest specific symptoms and diseases.


Language is a fundamental tool in human interaction. Not only is it a means of communicating our thoughts and ideas, but it helps forge friendships, relationships and cultural ties.


Intergroup attitudes have changed dramatically over the past 60 years.  As viewers of Mad Men are keenly aware, prejudices that were commonplace in the 1950s are now widely considered... Read More


Recognizing that disciplines and research programs evolve during a faculty member’s career, the College of Arts and Sciences has awarded New Directions Fellowships for Mid-Career Faculty to three... Read More


...From the the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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“In the scholarly world, cognitive sciences has everybody’s ear right now, and everybody is thinking about how to relate to it,” says Louis Menand (Harvard) in a New York Times article.


Although there is no Nobel Prize in Cognitive Science or Cognitive Neuroscience, the award to Cognitive Neuroscientist John O'Keefe for the original discovery of place cells and to... Read More


Professor Almut Hupbach weighs in on the case of suspended NBC News anchor Brian Williams whose recounting of a 2003 helicopter downing in Iraq changed in crucial respects over time.


Madeleine is a double major in Cognitive Science and Science and Environmental Writing. She will enter Lehigh’s Health Systems Engineering Master's program this summer as a Presidential Scholar.... Read More