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Cognitive Neuroscience
Many, from neuroscientists to philosophers to anesthesiologists, have claimed to understand consciousness. Do physicists? Does anyone?
Grandmasters and drug dealers have one thing in common: They are many steps ahead of their rivals.
Surprisingly, multimodal large language models struggle to read time on analog clocks.
A powerful psychedelic long used in African rituals shows surprising promise for treating traumatic brain injury and PTSD.
Cognitive neuroscientist and AI researcher Christopher Summerfield explores the differences, and similarities, of how AI and humans make meaning of the world.
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Delirium is one of the most perplexing deathbed phenomena, exposing the gap between our cultural ideals of dying words and the reality of a disoriented mind.
New research is uncovering why we eat first with our expectations.
The biases that shape our understanding of the mind.
Participants’ brains revealed they were doing a kind of “neural replay” of the game they had been manipulated to win.
If atoms are mostly empty space, then why can't two objects made of atoms simply pass through each other? Quantum physics explains why.
When it comes to behavior, genetics may play a larger role than you think.
The findings suggest that biochemical and physical effects of exercise could help heal nerves.
While we’re busy wondering whether machines will ever become conscious, we rarely stop to ask: What happens to us?
Changing the narrative on false memories might be surprisingly simple.
Why “audio gaps" in video meetings wear us out — and why we need the meaningful relationships forged in communal workspaces.
The findings show that even small areas in the brain may have the potential to represent complex meanings.
In the brain's language-processing centers, some cells respond to one word, while others respond to strings of words together.
Manipulating a signaling pathway in mice reversed their anxiety — and offers hope for a new class of anti-anxiety medications for humans.
Propofol, a drug commonly used for general anesthesia, derails the brain’s normal balance between stability and excitability.
The evidence is far less clear than popular media might lead you to believe.
Our “embodied minds” suggest an eventual escape from mortality via computer is unlikely.
Neuroscientist Christof Koch on human minds, AI, and bacteria.
An argument for emphasis on subjective experience.
A new framework describes how thought arises from the coordination of neural activity driven by oscillating electric fields — a.k.a. brain “waves” or “rhythms.”
“If we could target those circuits very precisely, then there’s great potential to block the inflammation response for many diseases."
Research suggests that experience may matter more than innate ability when it comes to a sense of direction.
Psychologist Mary C. Murphy explains why growth-mindset teams outperform those centered around a lone genius.
Even with the best technology imaginable, you'd probably never be able to exist as a consciously aware brain in a vat.