Neuroscience
Neuroscience’s Existential Crisis
We’re mapping the brain in amazing detail—but our brain can’t understand the picture.
The Accident That Led to Machines That Can See
The beauty of this breakthrough is serendipity.
The Spiritual Consciousness of Christof Koch
What the neuroscientist is discovering is both humbling and frightening him.
We Are Beast Machines
We understand conscious experiences only in light of our nature as living creatures.
Why These Children Fell into Endless Sleep
A neurologist makes an emotional visit to understand “resignation syndrome.”
Here’s Where Our Minds Sharpen in Old Age
Fluid intelligence has several aspects, and aging affects them differently.
Neurons Unexpectedly Encode Information in the Timing of Their Firing
A temporal pattern of activity observed in human brains for the first time may explain how we can learn so quickly.
Psychedelics Open a New Window on the Mechanisms of Perception
Hallucinatory drugs may allow our brains to let go of prior beliefs.
The English Professor Who Foresaw Modern Neuroscience
Science and the humanities weren’t separate cultures to this critic.