What Happens in a Mind That Can't 'See' ...

Imagine you’re holding two equal-size dice. Is it possible to bore a tunnel through one die that’s big enough for the other to slide through? It is — but what about other shapes? In a paper posted online in August, two researchers describe a shape with 90 vertices and 152 faces t ... Show More

Studies of neural metabolism reveal our brain’s effort to keep us alive and the evolutionary constraints that sculpted our most complex organ.The story How Much Energy Does It Take To Think? first appeared on Quanta Magazine. 

Ask ChatGPT how to build a bomb, and it will flatly respond that it “can’t help with that.” But users have long played a cat-and-mouse game to try to trick language models into providing forbidden information. Just as quickly as these “jailbreaks” appear, AI companies patch them ... Show More

Human brains don’t just perceive reality—they invent it. In this episode of Science Quickly, cognitive neuroscientist Daniel Yon speaks with host Rachel Feltman about how perception is an active process of prediction in which the brain constructs theories about the world that can ... Show More

Throbbing head, nausea, dizziness, disturbed vision – just some of the disabling symptoms that can strike during a migraine attack. This neurological condition is far more common than you might think, affecting more people than diabetes, epilepsy and asthma combined.While medicat ... Show More

It’s a mystery that has long puzzled researchers. Why can’t we remember our early childhood experiences? Freud called the phenomenon infantile amnesia, and for many years scientists have wondered whether it’s a result of failure to create memories or just a failure to retrieve th ... Show More

How can some people taste sounds? What’s happening in the brain of those who feel other’s sensations as their own? And why might we have evolved some of these extraordinary abilities in the first place? In this focus episode of How We’re Wired, join producer Dr Eva Higginbotham a ... Show More

The question of whether mental disorders are disorders of the brain has led to a long-running and controversial dispute within psychiatry, psychology and philosophy of mind and psychology. While recent work in neuroscience frequently tries to identify underlying brain dysfunction ... Show More

While observing fearful memories take shape in the brains of fish, neuroscientists saw an unexpected level of synaptic rewiring. 

The Science of Mind Reading: Unlocking the Secrets of Human ThoughtJoin us in this fascinating episode of The Science of Mind Reading, where we delve into the intriguing world of understanding human thoughts and emotions. Can we read minds, or is it just an illusion? In this epis ... Show More

Vous entrez dans une pièce, puis… trou noir. Vous restez planté là, incapable de vous rappeler ce que vous étiez venu y chercher. Cette expérience troublante a un nom : le "doorway effect", ou effet de la porte. Ce phénomène cognitif décrit la tendance de notre cerveau à oublier ... Show More