Category: NEUROSCIENCE ARTICLES

An interesting theory on the meaning of dreams. We know broadly what happens in the brain when we...

Neuroscience’s definition of consciousness is in a complete muddle. Research labs are now...

The human connectome is within reach. Well, in the next few decades at any rate. Researchers have...

Brain research is taking off. There is now a respectable number of substantial national and...

Is the thalamus at the heart of consciousness? There is a growing understanding of those who can...

People with amazingly clear mental images. Cossins writes about those people with the unusual...

Cortical tissue in a Petri dish makes waves. Scientists have cultured stem cells to form clumps of...

Critiquing Kahneman’s Thinking, fast and slow. Daniel Kahneman popularised the idea that...

Consciousness author tracks down original NCCs bet. Snaprud, who is writing a book on...

The cerebellum might be the cortex’s workhorse. It turns out that the cerebellum is connected to...

Bigger is better after all. In short, people with bigger, faster neurons have higher IQs, think...

What neuronal oscillations, or brainwaves, do and do not do. Wave therapy is a handy update on the...

Better technology enables ever more precise analysis of workings of memory. One of the main...

Reality – it’s all in your mind. The article describes a new theory that says that there is...

We can now watch the brain store long-term memories. A team at Stanford University has persuaded...