Neuroscience
How Does Your Brain Know a Cat Is a Cat?
A conversation with renowned neuroscientists Lisa Feldman Barrett and Earl Miller about categories, “folk psychology,” beginner’s mind, and thinking fast and slow
Where Brains Process Smell
First “smell map” reveals organization where scientists had predicted chaos
The New Science of the Near-Death Experience
For the first time, scientists are studying these mysterious states in real time
Can the Brain Survive Cryonic Sleep?
Experiments with mouse tissue suggest memory and function may remain intact
