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Here’s what lucid dreamers might tell us about our sleeping minds | Science News
Dreams are one of the most universal yet elusive human experiences By Maria Temming, August 27, 2023 at 9:00 am When Christopher Mazurek realizes he’s dreaming, it’s always the small stuff that tips him off. The first time it happened, Mazurek was a freshman at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. In the dream, he found…
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Brain development: The myth the brain “matures” when you’re 25 | Slate
A powerful idea about human development stormed pop culture and changed how we see one another. It’s mostly bunk. By Jane C. Hu, November 27, 20227:00 PM When Leonardo DiCaprio’s relationship with model/actress Camila Morrone ended three months after she celebrated her 25th birthday, the lifestyle site YourTango turned to neuroscience. DiCaprio has a well-documented…
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Your Brain Is a Prediction Machine That Is Always Active – Neuroscience News
By Neuroscience News, August 4, 2022 Summary: The brain constantly acts as a prediction machine, continuously comparing sensory information with internal predictions. Source: Max Planck Institute This is in line with a recent theory on how our brain works: it is a prediction machine, which continuously compares sensory information that we pick up (such as…
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Keep Forgetting Things? Neuroscience Says These 5 Habits Improve Memory and Leadership | Inc.com
Let’s go to the neuroscience: five specific tricks to improve memory and recall things better. By Bill Murphy Jr., http://www.billmurphyjr.com @BillMurphyJr When you forget things, you fall short: What time was that meeting tomorrow? Was it April who said she might want to become a customer in August, or was it August who said to…
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Why We Forget Things, According to Neuroscience | Time
By Corinne Purtill, April 28, 2022 7:00 AM EDT A baby zebrafish is just half the size of a pea. A recent look inside its transparent brain, however, offers clues to the far bigger mystery of how we remember—and how we forget. In an experiment that yielded insights into memory and the brain, a team…
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The Supreme Court’s Assault on Science – Scientific American
A recent decision that makes it easier to sentence children to life without parole ignores what we know about the prefrontal cortex By Daniel Weinberger on May 24, 2021 The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Jones v. Mississippi makes it easier for judges to sentence children to life in prison with no chance of…
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Is there a scientific case for literature? A neuroscientist novelist argues yes | Salon.com
Illogical as it might seem, there may be an evolutionary reason that humans love consuming fiction By Erik Hoel, April 18, 2021 11:30PM (UTC) You do something strange every day. You consume fictions. It’s such an omnipresent habit, shared by all, that we rarely consider the oddity of it. I’m a fiction writer myself, but…
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Brain fog: how trauma, uncertainty and isolation have affected our minds and memory | Health & wellbeing | The Guardian
After a year of lockdown, many of us are finding it hard to think clearly, or remember what happened when. Neuroscientists and behavioural experts explain why Moya Sarner, Wed 14 Apr 2021 01.00 EDT Before the pandemic, psychoanalyst Josh Cohen’s patients might come into his consulting room, lie down on the couch and talk about…
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Eight of Literature’s Most Powerful Inventions—and the Neuroscience Behind How They Work | Innovation | Smithsonian Magazine
These reoccuring story elements have proven effects on our imagination, our emotions and other parts of our psyche By Angus Fletcher, smithsonianmag.comMarch 10, 2021 Shortly after 335 B.C., within a newly built library tucked just east of Athens’ limestone city walls, a free-thinking Greek polymath by the name of Aristotle gathered up an armful of…
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A Neuroscientist Explains Adult Coloring Books — Science of Us
A few months ago, I caved: I bought myself a coloring book. And maybe you did, too, or perhaps you received one as a gift for the holidays. According to a recent Fortune article, adult coloring books are one of the biggest contributors to this year’s boost in print-book sales. With over 11,000 search results…
