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Neuroscience

When Words Fail

Where our minds go when words let us down.

September 11, 2019

Human Emotions Are Personal Narratives

Neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux on what makes our brains unique.

August 28, 2019

Our Brains Tell Stories So We Can Live

Without inner narratives we would be lost in a chaotic world.

August 6, 2019

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.

June 11, 2019

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.

April 4, 2019

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.”

February 8, 2019

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.