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Neuroscience
Chess could perhaps be the ultimate window through which we might see how our mental powers shift during our lives.
The puzzle of play
The purpose of play — for children, monkeys, rats or meerkats — has proved surprisingly hard to pin down. Scientists continue to toss around ideas.
This was largely a philosophical question until 2005, when a surgical team in France performed the first partial face transplant.
Awe-inspiring moments can be found in our daily lives, and they have surprising benefits for our health and sense of well-being.
You know that ghostly feeling that someone is nearby even though nobody is? It could be a trick of neural timing.
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Experimental neuroscientist Patrick McNamara on how we can harness spiritual experiences to explore alternate realities in our minds, and transform our models of the self.
The study was small and didn't include a placebo group, but there is reason to believe that the drugs really do work.
The ability to decode acoustic information from brain activity aids the development of brain-computer interfaces that restore communication in patients who suffer paralysis.
Tasting sounds and hearing colors.
A new study provides the most detailed look at brains on psychedelics to date.
Psychedelics mess with our prior beliefs, and could help us see what forms these beliefs in the first place.
If you’re trying to break a bad habit or start a good one, psychologists have some tips.
“It doesn’t erase what happened to you. It just changes the impact it has on your life.”
To what extent will our psychological vulnerabilities shape our interactions with emerging technologies?
This is the latest study to confirm that the brain does not fully mature until at least the third decade of life.
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Your sexual education was probably inadequate. Here’s the information you always needed.
Pick up the paintbrush and get to work.
As Abraham Lincoln famously said, “If you want to test a man’s character, give him power and a plate of cookies.” (Something like that.)
In all mammals, there are two brain pathways for processing information from the eyes: an evolutionarily ancient one and a more modern one.
Depression might be similar to dreaming.
Some scientists think brain organoids could develop a form of consciousness. Others say that's science fiction.
The secret may lie in an old idiom: "Sleep on it."
Ev Fedorenko’s Interesting Brains Project highlights the human brain’s remarkable capacity to adapt, reorganize in the face of early damage.
This is your brain on work.
Studies suggest that meditation can quiet the restless brain.
Only humans can voluntarily conjure new objects and events in our minds.
As improving biotech offers us longevity, we can prepare to live much better as we age.
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Expert Michael Spitzer explains how culture can “tune” your musical taste.