Neuroscience

The extent to which people experience “inner speech” varies greatly, and the differences matter for performing certain cognitive tasks

The EEG has shaped researchers’ understanding of cognition for everything from perception to memory

Despite great progress, we lack even the beginning of an explanation of how the brain produces our inner world of colors, sounds, smells and tastes. A thought experiment with “pain-pleasure” zombies illustrates that the mystery is deeper than we thought

Mitochondria appear to ratchet up their activity when life is going well and tamp it down during hard times

The human brain loves seeing patterns, even when they aren’t really there

Thirty-year-old Noland Arbaugh says the Neuralink chip has let him “reconnect with the world”

Just watching someone scratch themselves on social media switches on the brain network that initiates the physical sensation of itch

Both expertise and the ability to release one’s focus can help people enter a state of effortless attention

Counting crows proclaim “caw, caw, caw, caw” when staring at the number four

Technology that enables researchers to interpret brain signals could one day allow people to talk using only their thoughts

Google scientists have modeled all 150 million connections of a fragment of the human brain at nanoscale resolution

What the neuroscience of near-death experiences tells us about human consciousness