Author: Daniella Barbieri

If Charles Darwin was right when he said humans descended from a common ancestor, why can we communicate complex thoughts and emotions through words, but other species can’t?  Linguistics professor Noam Chomsky proposed that people are born with the ability to learn language. According to the Wernicke-Geschwind Model for… Read the rest at our website.

In the 1900s, Freud described dreaming as a “royal road to the unconscious mind,” but he didn’t factor in daydreaming, which involves a conscious focus on our internal thoughts.  Prolonged or maladaptive daydreaming raises important questions about its impact on mental health.  It is a phenomenon characterized by vivid… Read the rest at our website.