Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought that originally began to emerge in the 1970s due to dissatisfaction with formal approaches to language. As I explain in my book, ...

Musical ability has traditionally been studied as the product of a general-purpose cognitive architecture 1,2, but a growing number of studies are based on the premise that music is a cognitively ...

Trying to characterize the “architecture of the mind” is one of the central projects in cognitive science. From understanding what neurons actually do, to designating certain brain regions as ...

The ideas of Noam Chomsky, popularised by Steven Pinker, come under fire in Vyvyan Evans’s book The Language Myth: Why language is not an instinct IS THE way we think about language on the cusp ...

Guidance for DDP students who want to take a foreign language module with the Modern Languages Teaching Centre and how to apply. The Modern Languages Teaching Centre (MLTC) offers an institution-wide ...

A Welsh government review is due to look at modern foreign languages Plans to take a language module out of the Welsh Baccalaureate have been criticised by a group of MPs and peers. In a letter to ...