Tentative Language Is Kind of Complicated, Isn’t It?

What kind of stroke is it?

The search for protein biomarkers in peripheral blood to aid in the diagnosis of stroke and the prediction of prognosis after stroke and risk of future stroke is an active area of investigation. Although some markers, such as S100b and neuron-specific enolase, have been shown to have prognostic value in ischemic stroke (1, 2 ), no biochemical markers have proven to be really useful in routine c...

What is episodic memory if it is a natural kind?

Language is handy but is it embodied?

Part 1 provides Arbib's reflections on the influence of Marc Jeannerod on his career. Part 2 recalls the Mirror System Hypothesis (MSH) for the evolution of the language-ready brain, a theory which emphasizes the role of manual action in grounding language evolution, thus giving one meaning for "language is handy". Part 3 then joins in current debates over the notion of whether or not language ...

Food Security—A Commentary: What Is It and Why Is It So Complicated?

Every year over 10 million people die of hunger and hunger related diseases. Nearly six million of these are children under the age of five; that is one child's death approximately every six seconds. Understanding how this still occurs amid the ever increasing social enlightenment of the 21st century-and under the auspices of a vigilant global developmental community-is one of the key challenge...

Honeybee dance language: is it overrated?

In a recent article inTREE, Grüter and Farina [1] point out that in honeybee dance language the communication of spatial (navigational) information is embedded in several additional informational components. As a consequence, followers of dances do not need to perceive or use the spatial information encoded in the dances to show adaptive foraging behavior. However, whether this is sufficient to...