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A clever neuroscience experiment shows that the "other-race effect" is likely due to a lack of experience and perceptual expertise rather than racism.
Here's what it means for the field.
The phenomenon of “digital dementia” might not be real after all.
Research shows how temperature can be used to manipulate circadian rhythms.
While one may be helpful, the other may be harmful.
Reframing life in terms of death reveals some of the biggest philosophical problems with how we think about living systems.
You open an app and start scrolling, then suddenly it's an hour later. Sound familiar?
The "Mind After Midnight" hypothesis aims to explain why night owls tend to suffer more negative health outcomes.
Uploading your mind is not a pathway to immortality. Instead, it will create a possibly hostile digital doppelgänger.
Let's hope that squid don't evolve lungs and legs, or humanity might be in real trouble.
Long thought incapable of regenerating, we now know that brain cells can grow and reorganize. That, it turns out, is a mixed blessing.
When you imitate the speech of others, there’s a thin line between whether it’s a social asset or faux pas.
Proponents of transhumanism make big promises, such as a future in which we upload our minds into a supercomputer. But there is a fatal flaw in this argument: reductionism.
Patients with amygdala damage rejected the widely accepted answer to the infamous "trolley problem," saying that it "hurts too much."
Turning off a gene called “Myc” has a surprising effect in male fruit flies: They start courting other males.
For over three decades, toxic proteins were believed to cause Alzheimer’s disease. However, recent studies suggest it might be metabolic reprogramming.
It might be good for your memory.
In the 1980s, some wardens started painting their cells with a shade of pink dubbed "Baker-Miller Pink."
Music and sounds only seem to reduce pain in mice when played at a specific volume.
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How to see through the lies that surround us.
the human brain remains highly responsive to sound during sleep, but it does not receive feedback from higher order areas — sort of like an orchestra with “the conductor missing.”
The world is aging, and with age comes vision decline. New research may have found how to improve eyesight in an accessible way.
The serotonin theory of depression started to be widely promoted in the 1990s, coinciding with a push to prescribe more SSRIs.
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Where do you place precious brain resources?
Myrkl (pronounced "miracle") is supposed to let you go wild without facing the consequences the next day. But does it actually work?
Noradrenaline-targeting drugs, including blood pressure, depression, and ADHD meds, improve Alzheimer's disease symptoms.
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What inequality and populism look like in the brain, according to a neuroscientist.
John Templeton Foundation
A new finding that unconsciously processed images are distributed to higher-order brain networks requires the revision of a popular theory of consciousness.