neuroscience
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... →
08/09/2023 - 12:53
The study, published today in the journal “Nature Human Behaviour,” confirms what individual studies have hinted at for decades,... →
29/10/2021 - 12:02
Today, the definition I find most useful as a student and teacher of happiness draws on the words of Helen Keller who more than a century... →
29/08/2021 - 13:21
The answers are yes and yes; but, unfortunately, biological and cultural explanations are so often seen as mutually exclusive that a middle... →
16/04/2021 - 13:26
She recalls a family trip to the Grand Canyon when she was 10. In a photo taken that day, Laura and her parents sit on a bench, sporting... →
01/04/2021 - 14:25
A functional map of the brain tells us almost nothing about what it feels like to be alive. Even certain neuroscientists have an... →
26/03/2021 - 13:05
Noonan’s North bar and grill is in an unassuming blue clapboard building, just off Main Street in the town of Holy Cross, Iowa (population... →
25/01/2021 - 15:29
In these uncertain times, out of step with ordinary life, his mind roamed free of routines and social distractions. And it was in this... →
14/10/2020 - 15:27
I used to have nightmares, right before graduation, about having to redo it all, and would wake up in sweat and agony. I would never, ever... →
21/07/2020 - 12:06
But there was a twist. The monkeys were not provided with joysticks or any other devices that could manipulate the arm. Rather, they were... →
17/07/2020 - 13:36
These were serious, debilitating symptoms. And yet, they might have seemed almost mild once CT and MRI scans presented a diagnosis: the... →
08/02/2020 - 13:39
Well, one of the things that strikes teachers most when they’re in the classroom, how different the children are, how differently they... →