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Joseph Shavit

Scientists discover brain neurons that light up whenever we see food

When you look at foods, a specialized part of your visual cortex lights up, according to a new study from MIT neuroscientists.

Joseph Shavit

People around the world like the same kinds of smells

What smells we like or dislike is primarily shared by people regardless of cultural background, according to researchers in Sweden and UK.

Joseph Shavit

Can we tell someone's cultural group from the way they laugh?

Can we infer someone's cultural group from their laugher, even when we do not know what they are laughing at?

Joshua Shavit

How do you map the infinitude of colors to a discrete number of words?

No language has words for all the blues of a wind-churned sea or the greens and golds of a wildflower meadow in late summer.