Professor John Vervaeke has developed a brilliant metatheory of cognition (see here, here, and here). This is quite a feat. As I note in this post, “cognition” is one of the most complicated concepts ...

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Researchers at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and the Alana Down Syndrome Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have demonstrated that daily exposure to 40Hz sensory ...