David Green receives funding from the Australian Research Council and from Monash University. Ants are simple creatures. They live by simple rules: if you see a scrap of food, pick it up; if you see a ...

When we write things down, it's important to keep things nice and clear, so it's easy to read. Sentences help us give an order, ask a question, state a fact, or express an emotion or idea. Words are ...

When we face complexity, we have a choice between a simple solution and a complex solution. Donald Sull Simple rules work because they are easy to remember; “when information is limited and time is ...

Bread. Pasta. Potatoes. Cake. Many of our favorite things are packed with a biomolecule called carbohydrates. We need them – they are what allows our bodies to produce the energy required to maintain ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about B2B sales strategies. This article is more than 10 years old. A key component of any growth strategy is the ...

Receptive fields in primary visual cortex (V1) are categorized as simple or complex, depending on their spatial selectivity to stimulus contrast polarity. We studied the dependence of this ...

Phobias represent significant types of anxiety disorder, defined as an excessive and irrational fears experienced by an individual. A person with a phobia becomes panicky when encountering the source ...

The orientation of a line at a given position in visual space is represented by a small volume of primary visual cortex, known as an orientation column. Although cells within such a column share some ...