Brain

01/12/2024 - 14:48

There’s a somewhat forgotten idea from psychology that can help explain why. It’s called the region-beta paradox, and it describes a common... →

17/10/2024 - 13:38

Fifty years ago, as graduate students at Oxford, my wife and I were preparing to do anthropological fieldwork on the island of Sumba, in... →

30/05/2024 - 15:28

Certainly, when compared with other animals of a similar size, our brains are gigantic. The human brain has nearly quadrupled in size... →

29/04/2024 - 12:40

Armed with such research, a coalition of scientists is calling for a rethink in the animal–human relationship. If there’s “a realistic... →

17/03/2024 - 14:27

My parents raised my sisters and I bilingually from birth. They sought advice and were told to only speak their respective languages to us... →

02/03/2024 - 15:44

I turned 18 the day before I left home for university, conveniently passing the UK's age threshold for buying alcohol just in... →

10/02/2024 - 16:10

ower napping is a rising trend worldwide. But does a quick catnap during the day actually work? Does it leave you feeling refreshed and... →

14/01/2024 - 12:00

It may have looked like clunky blocks of circuitry, soldered together by hand in a mass of wires and boxes, but what Cowan was witnessing... →

15/10/2023 - 19:17

For a moment, I panicked. Then the teacher called on me, I opened my mouth, and words emerged. Where had they come from? Evidently, I’d had... →

26/06/2023 - 12:06

Now researchers say they have found evidence to suggest napping may help to protect against brain shrinkage. That is of interest, the team... →

08/06/2023 - 13:08

Followers of Descartes have argued that consciousness is a uniquely human attribute, perhaps facilitated by language, that allows us to... →

10/03/2023 - 14:52

As a philosopher of mind, I think the key ingredients of personal transformation are not always found in tectonic events. Drawing from... →

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