Why Is My Brain Tingling?
The neuroscience of “autonomous sensory meridian response”
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The Irony Effect
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How the scientist who founded the science of mistakes ended up mistaken.
Unraveling the Enigma of Reason
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What is the relationship between how we reason and the reasons we come up with?
Gustav Klimt in the Brain Lab
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What is neuroscience doing to art?
This is How Tiny Changes in the Words You Hear Impact Your Thinking
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In a fascinating look at language, a professor lays out how political parties can sway supporters with tiny tweaks in word choice.
Why Red Means Red in Almost Every Language - Issue 76: Language
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My life with face blindness: I spent decades unable to recognize people. Then I learned why.
A journey toward seeing myself more clearly.
How the Brain Links Gestures, Perception and Meaning | Quanta Magazine
Neuroscience has found that gestures are not merely important as tools of expression but as guides of cognition and perception.
The Brain Maps Out Ideas and Memories Like Spaces | Quanta Magazine
Emerging evidence suggests that the brain encodes abstract knowledge in the same way that it represents positions in space, which hints at a more universal theory of cognition.
Truly, neurally, deeply
Scientists are developing AI systems called deep neural nets that can read medical images and detect disease — with astonishing efficiency
A long-overlooked brain region may be key to complex thought
The thalamus has traditionally been viewed just as the brain’s sensory relay station. But it may also play an important role in higher-level cognition, MIT’s Michael Halassa explains in a Q&A.
Surgeons Identify—And Save—A Patient’s Chess-Playing Brain Area
Neuroscientists at the University of Barcelona set about on a search for brain areas involved in chess-related tasks so that surgeons could avoid them when removing a tumor
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Can Crows Make Mental Pictures of Tools? (Published 2018)
New Caledonian crows were trained to seek rewards by tearing paper of a certain size, demonstrating what researchers say is quite advanced toolmaking.
What to Do When Your Brain Insists You’re Always on a Boat - Facts So Roman
Zvonimir Orec via Shutterstock Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Last July, Chris Perry went on an Alaskan cruise with her family to celebrate her parents’ 50th wedding anniversary. When she boarded the massive Norwegian Sun cruise ship, she felt…
How many senses do humans have?
The obvious answer is five: vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. But the reality may not be so simple.