When you look at foods, a specialized part of your visual cortex lights up, according to a new study from MIT neuroscientists.

What smells we like or dislike is primarily shared by people regardless of cultural background, according to researchers in Sweden and UK.

Can we infer someone's cultural group from their laugher, even when we do not know what they are laughing at?

No language has words for all the blues of a wind-churned sea or the greens and golds of a wildflower meadow in late summer.