Four Yale investigators have been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to use behavioral, brain scanning, and information theoretic methods to investigate how and why meaning changes in language.Processing of metonymy (a fundamental mechanism...
Nobel Prize-winner Daniel Kahneman, widely credited as the father of behavioral economics and author of the 2011 best-seller “Thinking, Fast and Slow,” will deliver the 2013 Arthur M. Okun Public Policy Lecture on Wednesday, Feb. 20.Daniel KahnemanFree...
North Korea, which just conducted its third nuclear test, is using its weapons program to deter the United States by holding its allies “hostage,” according to Paul Bracken, who teaches management and political science at Yale.The spread of the atom bomb...
[video:http://vimeo.com/25593920]A scientist’s biology lecture on flight goes awry when she reveals her own extreme experiments in “Theory of Flight” — the next offering in the new Franke Lectures in Science and the Humanities.“Theory of Flight” is “a...
Laurie R. Santos, associate professor of psychology, will be one of the featured guests for a live chat on “The Secrets of Your Dog’s Mind,” which will hosted by Science magazine at 3 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 28.Laurie R. Santos“When it comes to studying...
YaleNews features works recently or soon to be published by members of the University community. Descriptions are based on material provided by the publishers. Authors of new books may forward publishers’ book descriptions to us by email.Engineers of...
YaleNews features works recently or soon to be published by members of the University community. Descriptions are based on material provided by the publishers. Authors of new books may forward publishers’ book descriptions to us by email.James Boswell’s “...
YaleNews features works recently or soon to be published by members of the University community. Descriptions are based on material provided by the publishers. Authors of new books may forward publishers’ book descriptions to us by email.Choosing Yiddish...