The Neolithic relief found in southeastern Turkey may illustrate humans' changing relationship with animals. (photo by K. Akdemir, courtesy Cambridge University Press) About 11,000 years ago, ...

As a graduating doctoral candidate, I find myself facing many transitions ahead. At times like these, we often use a book metaphor: The Stanford chapter is coming to a close, and a new chapter is ...

Credit: Getty Images Narrative medicine seeks to apply the humanities — literature, art, storytelling — to clinical encounters as a means to provide more holistic care. Health care requires humanity.

The carving of is the oldest known depiction of a narrative scene. It dates back 11,000 years to the Neolithic era known as the New Stone Age. "This was a picture of the stories that formed the ...

A prehistoric painting in Indonesia has been dated to at least 51,200 years ago, making it the earliest known example of "figurative" cave art in the world and perhaps the oldest known surviving ...

Imagining things that do not exist in nature and weaving them into narratives are unique signatures of the human psyche. These abilities are abundantly evident in the earliest example of narrative art ...

Most people know George Lucas as the writer-director of the original Star Wars trilogy, as well as a producer of many films and series that make up the franchise’s extended universe. In recent years, ...

Recently I've been deep-diving into a model of brain, mind, and behavior—active inference and the free energy principle—developed by a leading neuroscientist and computational psychiatrist Karl ...

I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. —Robert Frost, 1874-1963, “The Road Not Taken” When individual teachers or entire schools are faced with the desire/need to ...