For our brain, animate and inanimate objects belong to different categories and any information about them is stored and processed by different networks. A study shows that there is also another ...

To be an inanimate object must be, I fancy, a very uninteresting affair. Certainly, being one appears to have a disastrous effect upon the disposition. No one who has had any intercourse with ...

Young children with autism appear to be delayed in their ability to categorize objects and, in particular, to distinguish between living and nonliving things, according to a breakthrough study by ...

When we're desperate for love or attention, we unconsciously lower our standards for what we'll try to connect with, according to new research. Loneliness, it seems, can cause the line between animate ...

A research team at Harvard University has announced that jumping spiders have 'the ability to distinguish between living things and inanimate objects.' This ability has only been confirmed in ...

A study has shown that infants could be more intelligent than previously believed. Infants apparently hold the ability to categorise things as animate or inanimate, which is a cognitive ability that ...

Here is a sutra from Ishavasya upanishad: He who sees the entire world of animate and inanimate objects in himself And also sees himself in all animate and inanimate objects because of this, does not ...