Neuroscience
Using Brain Waves to Translate Thoughts into Pictures
Young scientists dream up a way to decipher the mind’s eye with EEG and AI
Your Brain Can Learn Things When You’re Unconscious
It’s more awake and alive to the outside world under anesthesia than we thought
What Happens in the Brain When “Psychedelic Virgins” Trip for the First Time
Cue the Grateful Dead
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
Is This Brain Cell the Key to Controlling Appetite?
A star-shaped support cell may have a starring role in hunger
