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It is rightly said that mindfulness — a cognitive skill and practice — helps us to identify our hidden emotional patterns.

Feeling warm or cold doesn’t just register on the skin—it changes how connected we feel to our own bodies. Research shows ...

New research reveals that warmth, experienced through touch like a hug, significantly enhances bodily self-awareness and ...

A new review published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences explored the idea of thermoception, the ability to feel changes in skin temperature, such as a warm hug or a sudden ...

Scientifically, warm interpersonal contact engages thermosensitive pathways that facilitate brain activity associated with ...

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It is both an honour and a pleasure to address you on this occasion as we gather to celebrate International Philosophy Day.

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A team of Mass General Brigham researchers has developed one of the first fully autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) ...

Semantic Extension, Idioms and Proverbs, Cultural Semantics, Cognitive Semantics Share and Cite: Di, J.Y. (2026) A Semantic Analysis of “Peach” in Chinese and Japanese. Open Access Library Journal, 13 ...