neuroscience

Is the way we hear music biological or cultural?

Most of us can’t imagine wanting absolute control over a nation or feeling compelled to commit mass murders — so then what is it about a dictator’s psychology that makes them different?

The science of learning is decades ahead of the education system. How can we bring education into the present?

Most elderly individuals’ brains degrade over time, but some match — or even outperform — younger individuals on cognitive tests.

The system could help with diagnosing and treating patients that cannot communicate.

Researchers are only just beginning to really understand anaesthesia awareness.

An expert’s take on how to ace your exams through mindfulness.

This unsettling new understanding of vegetative patients raises medical ethics issues.

Mirror neurons bounce smiles from one person to the next.

A steady timing reference is required by one of the leading theories of neuronal communication.

Maura O’Connor discusses her new book, Wayfinding: The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World.

Someday we’ll beam to the moon for afternoon tea, and be back in New York for dinner.

Autism is a widely misunderstood condition surrounded by falsehoods, half-truths, and cultural assumptions.

These prior beliefs help us make sense of what we are perceiving in the present.

“A monkey has been able to control a computer with its brain,” Musk said, referring to tests of the device.

The Harvard Medical School’s clinical professor of psychiatry wrote the book on the topic.

LSD may help us change our lives by spurring perspective shifts.

Here’s what neuroscience and psychology have to say about how people humanize and dehumanize one another.

Brain plasticity. Mindful superpowers. Pokémon invading our grey matter. Scientists have only begun to learn about the human brain.

There are a few different theories out there, but the parieto-frontal integration theory, or P-FIT, appears to give us the best model of the neuroscience of intelligence.

It isn’t surprising, but what’s behind the straight-white-male hegemony?

Studying ‘episodic memory’ in animals may hold the key to understanding memory loss in humans.

A comprehensive interdisciplinary paper removes any doubt that orcas don’t belong in marine parks and zoos.

The remarkable distributed nervous system of the octopus is discussed at an astrobiology conference.

Barbara Tversky takes an outdated idea to task in Mind in Motion.

The more we learn about the microbiome, the more the pieces are fitting together.

Michael Pollan explains what goes on during the mental fireworks of a psychedelic experience.

Think adrenaline leaves you unable to think clearly? Think again.

Even more intriguing is the reason: recognizing facial expressions.

Creating more neural circuits through visual landmarking not only benefits your spatial orientation, it could keep Alzheimer’s disease at bay.