Category: NEUROSCIENCE ARTICLES

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...

The Blue Brain Project proposes multi-dimensional neural sub-networks. In 2015, the Blue Brain...

Today’s children are better at deferred gratification. The marshmallow test performed in...

New international research effort homes in on specific behaviours. A new, international...

Mirror neurons extend to emotion. The mirror neuron system allows OCD sufferers to watch others...