Neuroscience

An Emotional Time Machine: How Our Sense of Smell Can Unlock Childhood Memories

Jonas Olofsson on the Science Behind the Hidden Olfactory Keys to Times Long Past

 
By Jonas Olofsson  April 10, 2024
Neuroscience

“A Bright Stellate Object, a Small Angled Sphere.” On Migraines and Scotoma

By Brian Dillon  April 25, 2023
Neuroscience

The Most Mysterious of Arts: On the Science of Reading

By Adrian Johns  April 7, 2023
Neuroscience

Memories Lucid and Fleeting: What Our Brains Do and Don’t Tell Us

By Patrick House  November 4, 2022
Neuroscience

How Do the Books We Read Change Our Brains?

By Gregory Berns  October 20, 2022
Neuroscience

Gut Feelings: How Does Intuition Work, Anyway?

By Elaine Fox  September 12, 2022
Neuroscience

What’s the Point of a Jellyfish? Reflections on the Endless Cycle of Curiosity and Knowing

By Chantel Prat  August 2, 2022
Neuroscience

The Mysterious Man Who Discovered Neurons and Changed Science Forever

By Benjamin Ehrlich  March 15, 2022
Neuroscience

Where Does Childhood Wonder Come From—And Why Does it End?

By Frank C. Keil  March 2, 2022
Neuroscience

What Exactly Do Words Taste Like?

By Guy Leschziner  February 17, 2022
Neuroscience

On Death by GPS and the Search for a Safer Navigation System

By Christopher Kemp  February 14, 2022
Neuroscience

On the Historical Stigmatization and Persistent Vilification of Epilepsy in Literature

By Louise Fein  October 18, 2021
Neuroscience

The Importance of Forgetting: Where Borges and Child Psychiatrists Agree

By Scott A. Small  July 13, 2021
Neuroscience

Encoding, Storing, Retrieving: How Memory Works

By Lauren Aguirre  June 2, 2021
Neuroscience

Do Dogs Really Dream?

By Antonio Zadra and Robert Stickgold  January 20, 2021
Neuroscience

What Wave Patterns Can Tell Us About Our Personalities

By Camilla Pang  January 4, 2021
Neuroscience

On Learning of My Autism While Trying to Finish a Novel

By Madeleine Ryan  October 5, 2020
Neuroscience

How Does a Human Being’s Internal GPS Work?

By Michael Bond  June 29, 2020
Neuroscience

How, Exactly, Do Our Brains Construct Reality?

By Will Storr  March 11, 2020
Neuroscience

We’re Just Scratching the Surface of the Modern Environment’s Effect on Brain Health

By Donna Jackson Nakazawa  January 31, 2020
Neuroscience

How We Pay Attention Changes the Very Shape of Our Brains

By Stanislas Dehaene  January 30, 2020
Neuroscience

How Does One Actually Prove a Human is Smarter Than a Housefly?

By Nicholas P. Money  October 10, 2019
Neuroscience

On the Brain: We’re Not As Hardwired As We Think

By Gina Rippon  August 30, 2019
Neuroscience

A Brief and Awful History
of the Lobotomy

By Andrew Scull  July 30, 2019
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