A new study used LEGO bricks to investigate the neurocognitive underpinnings of our engagements with symbolic objects. The study suggests that we experience symbolic objects as social entities. A new ...

Sweden-based soloist Merely explains her love of collecting stones as a child, and discovering symbiosis between the physical and the spiritual. I started to collect stones when I was around five ...

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Journal of Anthropological Research, Vol. 42, No. 3, Approaches to Culture and Society (Autumn, 1986), pp. 447-465 (19 pages) Following Leach's emphasis (1966) on the communicative aspects of ritual, ...

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In the opening of Tim O’Brien’s heart-wrenching novel The Things They Carried, a fictional account of the author’s experiences in Vietnam, he lists items soldiers in Alpha Company carried into battle: ...

On the way to learning that one thing can represent another, young children often conflate the real item and its symbol. These errors show how difficult it is to start thinking symbolically About 20 ...

Everyone is interested in dreaming—in my introductory psychology course, it is always one of my students’ favorite topics. But do dreams really mean anything? Psychologists are genuinely divided over ...

A new study from IMC researchers Kristian Tylén, Riccardo Fusaroli, and Andreas Roepstorff, published in the scientific journal NeuroImage, used LEGO bricks to investigate the neurocognitive ...