Most people learn to count and do basic arithmetic at a young age and don’t give these skills a second thought. But numerosity or numeracy, the ability to think about and use numbers, is more than a ...

In honor of Women’s History Month, Duke celebrates the researchers whose inventions are destined to improve lives. It’s one thing to be able to recover from a stroke, the amputation of a limb or an ...

In an era dominated by Zoom meetings, Slack channels, and LinkedIn profiles, our ability to truly understand and connect with others is at risk. Richard Davis, author of "Good Judgment: Making Better ...

Sleep helps consolidate our memory of complex associations, thus supporting the ability to complete memories of whole events. Sleep helps consolidate our memory of complex associations, thus ...

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In a series of tea party-like experiments, Johns Hopkins University researchers demonstrated for the first time that apes can use their imagination and play pretend, an ability thought to be uniquely ...