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Gün Semin Awarded High Dutch Honor
APS Secretary and Fellow Gün R. Semin, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, was awarded the position of Officer of the Order of Orange Nassau. ... More>
Brain Stores Objects by Color, Too
How do we know what a lemon is, or a baseball? “Theories that explain how our brains store knowledge say that similar knowledge is stored in similar places. So things that are related - in how they look, how they smell, and so on - should overlap in the brain,” says Eiling Yee of the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain, & Language. In other words, the same part of your brain might store the information that both lemons and canaries are yellow. ... More>
