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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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: ...

The discovery of a 43,000-year-old fingerprint in Spain is challenging the idea that Neanderthals were not capable of symbolic art. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

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 ...

Detail of the Korean Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Gwaneum bosal) crafted in the Goryeo period, ca. 1220 to 1285. National Museum of Korea, Seoul, Freer|Sackler A Buddhist seeking care and kindness ...