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Neuroscience

Why Curiosity Can Be Both Painful and Pleasurable

The emerging neurology of one of our most human characteristics.

September 25, 2017

Mini-Brains Go Modular

To create a good living replica of the human brain, your best hope may be to let “organoid” components assemble it for you.

August 9, 2017

When Neurology Becomes Theology

A neurologist’s perspective on research into consciousness.

June 8, 2017

Is Consciousness Fractal?

Our subconscious love for fractals may tell an evolutionary story.

April 27, 2017

The Spiritual, Reductionist Consciousness of Christof Koch

What the neuroscientist is discovering is both humbling and frightening him.

March 31, 2017

Ingenious: Lisa Feldman Barrett

Inside a new theory of emotions that spotlights how the brain works.

March 30, 2017

Feelings: What Are They and How Does the Brain Make Them?

Do animals share our capacity to feel conscious emotions?

February 28, 2017

The Outer Limits of Reason

A look at paradoxes in language.

February 23, 2017