Mermaids, unicorns, dragons and sea monsters are some of the most popular creatures in common lore. But where did these creatures come from? How did we create these monsters and beasts? The new ...

Circa 1450, the creative community was jolted. The printing press had just been invented in Europe. Scribes, typically monks who had spent lifetimes perfecting the spiritual art of hand-copying ...

A new study by UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience proposes that generative AI can help explain both the human imagination and memory formation. The study utilized an AI computational model, also ...

When the camera was invented in 1826, many people thought painting would die. But it didn’t. Instead, painters found new ways to express themselves. They reinvented expressionism, impressionism, and ...

Religious belief came after brains evolved imagination, a scientist claims. April 28, 2008 — -- Humans alone practice religion because they're the only creatures to have evolved imagination. That ...

Almost a decade ago, Chongxi Lai, then a graduate student at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus, was puzzled by a nagging question: Are animals capable of imagination? “I ...

(THE CONVERSATION) – You can easily picture yourself riding a bicycle across the sky even though that’s not something that can actually happen. You can envision yourself doing something you’ve never ...

Selene Jin's name is attached to some of the most powerful fintech and AI platforms of the past decade. She is both a UX designer and a systems architect for the future. Her work has turned the ...

Neuroscientist Andrey Vyshedskiy from Boston University has recently published a paper that could explain the long-standing mystery surrounding language evolution that has baffled scientists for ...