The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are ...

1 University of Pavia, Department of Brain and Bhavioural Sciences, Italy 2 Centro di Neurocognizione, Epistemologia e Sintassi teorica, IUSS, Italy Understanding metaphors requires to go beyond the ...

The familiar fight between “mind as software” and “mind as biology” may be a false choice. This work proposes biological computationalism: the idea that brains compute, but not in the abstract, symbol ...

Unfinished tasks occupy your brain differently than completed ones. Discover why "done" matters more than "perfect"—and how to engineer closure.

When we are awake, we seem to experience a continuous stream of sensations, reflections, memories, and impressions that make ...

The ideas presented in George Lakoff and Srini Narayanan's The Neural Mind are fascinating, but the writing is far less ...

A team of UChicago psychology researchers used fMRI scans to learn why certain moments carry such lasting power ...

This name combo pits two extremely contradictory concepts of style, values, and leadership against each other in a way that ...

Conflict can feel personal when your mind is primed to defend itself come what may. Here’s how attachment sensitivity makes ...

Cain quickly defines emergent systems as "features that were not necessarily intended by the original designer, but result ...

As a pediatrician, I know that some of the most transformative gifts for young children don’t require batteries or assembly.