Neuroscience

A conversation with cognitive scientist Evelina Fedorenko about where thought and language overlap

Adopting certain lifestyle habits, including physical exercise, could significantly reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia

A conversation with comparative cognition researcher Edward Wasserman about learning and the “edge of chaos”

A conversation with neuroscientist Susana Carmona, author of “A Mother’s Brain,” about how the brain changes in motherhood

A conversation with a scientist about a 16-year-old who has highly superior autobiographical memory

New study suggests a more complex reshuffling of experience

This multisensory process engages many brain networks at once

Face-to-face interaction trumps screens for social and language learning

Research suggests they may be capable of self-conscious emotion much earlier than we thought

Here’s what the science really tells us

A survey of more than 500 private psychedelic users finds real utility in a 60-year-old pamphlet on safe tripping penned by a pioneer of harm reduction