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Neuroscience

Which Sex of Mouse Should You Ask for Directions?

The sex stereotypes built into animal research.

June 26, 2023

Reality Is Your Brain’s Best Guess

Your expectations form the way you experience the world.

June 20, 2023

Forget What You Think You Know About Emotions

Emotions don’t happen to you; your brain creates them.

June 9, 2023

Is Consciousness More Like Chess or the Weather?

Our minds seem both physical and intangible. That paradox has gripped this neuroscientist since childhood.

May 18, 2023

Faulty Memory Is a Feature, Not a Bug

Forgetting and misremembering are the building blocks of creativity and imagination.

May 2, 2023

Your Brain Is Shaped Like Nobody Else’s

Every brain’s white matter is different—and that might hold the key to better treatments.

April 19, 2023

What Happens to My Brain on the Psychedelic DMT?

One question for Christopher Timmermann, a cognitive neuroscientist at Imperial College London.

March 20, 2023

Neuroscience Has a Race Problem

Why Black people are poorly represented in neuroimaging studies—and how science can do better.

February 15, 2023

The Brain Uses Calculus to Control Fast Movements

Researchers discover that to sharpen its control over precise maneuvers, the brain uses comparisons between control signals—not the signals themselves.

January 4, 2023

What Does Love Do to Us?

One question for Anna Machin, an evolutionary anthropologist at Oxford University.

December 12, 2022

What the Tiny Cluster of Brain Cells in My Lab Are Telling Me

I’ve created organoids that, surprisingly, have a lot to say about how the brain works.

November 15, 2022

Why Your Brain Isn’t Into the Future

What you can’t imagine clearly, you value less.

November 4, 2022