A selection of science-based books from the year that together shine new light on who we are and why we think and act as we do.
When we watch someone move, get injured, or express emotion, our brain doesn’t just see it—it partially feels it. Researchers ...
Even consciousness could reveal its secrets someday with this realistic simulation, researchers hope. It will not only ...
MIT researchers tested the “Spatial Computing” theory and found that brain waves organize neurons into flexible, ...
Our thoughts are specified by our knowledge and plans, yet our cognition can also be fast and flexible in handling new ...
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How the distinctive folds in the brain cortex, seen in humans, whales, other animals, form
One of the defining features of humans is our brain's remarkable capacity for language, planning, memory, creativity, and more. These abilities stem not just from our large brain size, but also from ...
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Your Brain Can Learn From Events That Never Occurred. Reality Isn’t the Only Thing Shaping You.
Scientists discerned that a person’s neural and behavioral outcomes shifted when simply vividly imagining a positive ...
The cerebral cortex is the largest part of a mammal's brain, and by some measures the most important. In humans in particular, it's where most things happen-like perception, thinking, memory storage ...
An intense international effort to improve the resolution of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for studying the human brain has culminated in an ultra-high resolution 7 Tesla scanner that records up to ...
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