Neuroscience
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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. -
Weird Dreams Train Our Brains to Be Better Learners
For many of us over the last year and more, our waking experience has, you might say, lost a bit of its variety. We spend more time with the same people, in our homes, and go to fewer places. Our stimuli these days, in other words, aren’t very stimulating. Too much day-to-day routine, too much […]
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Why These Children Fell into Endless Sleep
A neurologist makes an emotional visit to understand “resignation syndrome.”
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Here’s Where Our Minds Sharpen in Old Age
Fluid intelligence has several aspects, and aging affects them differently.
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Psychedelics Open a New Window on the Mechanisms of Perception
Hallucinatory drugs may allow our brains to let go of prior beliefs.
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The English Professor Who Foresaw Modern Neuroscience
Science and the humanities weren’t separate cultures to this critic.
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That Is Not How Your Brain Works
Forget these scientific myths to better understand your brain and yourself.
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I Am a Heroin User. I Do Not Have a Drug Problem
Carl Hart says drug addiction is often distorted by scientists and the media. -
Dreaming Is Like Taking LSD
A new theory explains that dreaming opens our minds to unexplored possibilities. -
Reading, That Strange and Uniquely Human Thing
How we evolved to read is a story of one creative species. -
Outwitting the Grim Reaper
Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin on how to age successfully. -
Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV
Is memorizing a string of words a key to what makes the human brain unique?
