Neuroscience
Our Brains Tell Stories So We Can Live
Without inner narratives we would be lost in a chaotic world.
Do Brains Operate at a Tipping Point? New Clues and Complications
New experimental results simultaneously advance and challenge the theory that the brain’s network of neurons balances on the knife-edge between two phases.
Are Animal Experiments Justified?
A neuroscientist confronts his anguish over experimenting on animals.
Goals and Rewards Redraw the Brain’s Map of the World
Two new studies show that the brain’s navigation system changes how it represents physical space to reflect personal experience.
New Evidence for the Strange Geometry of Thought
The brain may represent concepts in the same way that it represents space and your location, by using the same neural circuitry for the brain’s “inner GPS.”
Understanding the Brain with the Help of Artificial Intelligence
Neurobiologists program a neural network for analyzing the brain’s wiring.
Stable Perception in the Adult Brain
Neurons return to their original state after a change.
Surprising Network Activity in the Immature Brain
Developing brain networks act locally to build globally.
Why the Brain Is So Noisy
The surprising importance of spontaneous order and noise to how we think.
