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Children who have a brain hemisphere removed — a procedure known as hemispherectomy — behave completely normally.
When your passion becomes your day job, sometimes the day job becomes a chore.
Giving speech to the speechless.
Their neurons are very different from “normal” people.
It’s time for Tetris.
Parents want the best for their kids, but resilience helps children better cope with life’s unavoidable challenges.
Studying neuroscience through art.
A long-maligned treatment outperforms the trendy one.
Fear creates distraction, and that can be a positive experience.
This opens the door to manipulating networks of specific neurons.
Meditators invert the relationship between the layers of self-processing.
When other treatments fail, this radical surgery could help.
Something doesn’t add up.
The researchers suggest that their results demonstrate intelligence in silico.
If you believe that you’re perfect, then somebody else must be responsible for your failures.
Research has found that words are more accurately heard when accompanied by hand gestures.
Psychologists are exploring this creepy feeling of having already lived through an experience before.
What if your best friend was an informant?
Which one is the funniest?
Between 30% and 50% of the US population says they believe in ghosts.
An increase in genetic regulatory elements explains how modern humans evolved bigger brains than other hominins.
Does donating relieve that anxiety? Or make it worse?
The same brain differences that contribute to left-handedness also contribute to psychotic disorders. But there’s a bright side.
Our society mostly emphasizes developing logical, procedural thinking skills, but this isn’t the only way to come up with great ideas.
The DARPA-funded memory prosthesis helps the brain retain new information.
Negative feedback ignites the primal (“fight or flight”) and emotional (“do they hate me?”) parts of our brain first.
The findings of a recent study may help explain why some people are quicker to forget fearful memories.
Fiona Broome remembered Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s (he didn’t). Oddly, many people had the same false memory.