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How We Pay Attention Changes the Very Shape of Our Brains

How We Pay Attention Changes the Very Shape of Our Brains

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By Stanislas Dehaene | January 30, 2020

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The Desire for Friendship Runs Deeper in Primates Than We Thought

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How, Exactly, Does Neuroscience Account for the Way We See Color?

Riccardo Manzotti and Tim Parks Debate the Internalist View of Consciousness

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