Dot.” “Dash.” Short pulse, long pulse. Humans invented Morse code as a way to communicate using electrical signals. Now, bees ...

Now our new study shows that honeybees too can learn to match symbols and numerosities, much like we humans do with Arabic and Roman numerals. Language is the ability to learn and use a system of ...

Dr. Stone answers the question: 'Trouble With Symbolic Language Concepts?' Oct. 23, 2008 -- Question: What are common differences in the way a person on the autism spectrum might have trouble ...

Most children learn that written numbers represent quantities in pre-school or junior primary school. Now our new study shows that honeybees too can learn to match symbols and numerosities, much like ...

We've had many postings of late on human nature from guest-blogger Tom Clark and from Marcelo, Stu, and me, so I'll go ahead and continue the thread. I'll first consider the concept of a self, then ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - It didn't start with Valentine's Day. Flowers have been silent signals between sweethearts as well as symbols in art since ancient times. Roman artists represented love by a rose; ...

As the semanticist S.I. Hayakawa stressed in his classic book Language in Thought and Action, words are not the things they represent. Words are symbols. It’s the manipulation of those symbols that ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Lucretius distinguishes between animal vocalization (uoces ciere) and human language (res uoce notare) in ways that may be called "semiotic": ...