What Makes Hemingway Hemingway?
On the psychology of artistic style
By Jessica Love Thursday, January 15, 2015
On Expecting Things to Fall Apart
We understand entropy surprisingly early in life
By Jessica Love Thursday, January 8, 2015
Limericks That Leave You Hanging
When we expect to hear a rhyme and don’t
By Jessica Love Thursday, December 18, 2014
When Nouns Verb Oddly
Verb meanings are slipperier than noun meanings
By Jessica Love Thursday, November 13, 2014
Are Our Screams, Sighs, and Giggles Universal?
Two studies suggest yes and no
By Jessica Love Thursday, November 6, 2014
Don’t Mock the Monocle (A Webcomic)
On our unspoken preferences for ordering adjectives
By Jessica Love Thursday, October 30, 2014
Friends Don’t Let Friends Listen and Drive
Is it dangerous to drive under the influence of … language?
By Jessica Love Thursday, May 30, 2013
A Mind to Navigate
An evolutionary story for a visional illusion
By Jessica Love Thursday, May 16, 2013
Where’s the “The”?
Do babies mistake function words for object labels?
By Jessica Love Thursday, May 2, 2013
Time Traveling Through a Sentence
To understand language we relive the past and predict the future
By Jessica Love Thursday, April 18, 2013
CAPTCHA That Bot!
Behind the distorted text that decides: human or not?
By Jessica Love Thursday, April 11, 2013
The Internet Remembers
Sometimes entire populations behave a lot like individuals
By Jessica Love Thursday, April 4, 2013
Hardwired for Talk?
There’s a problem: languages change really fast
By Jessica Love Thursday, March 28, 2013
