Neuroscience

Why the father of neuroscience, toward the end of his career, preferred to study ants.

Does the body rule the mind? Or does the mind rule the body?

But what if it’s telling them a false story?

We brought Antonio Damasio and Anil Seth together to share their insights into neuroscience’s big question.

Consciousness is a continuous conversation between the feeling body and the knowing mind.

Will too much time in the virtual world impact how children develop in the real one?

It might be more accurate to think of many of the brain’s 10 billion neurons as being deep networks, with five to eight layers in each one.

We’re mapping the brain in amazing detail—but our brain can’t understand the picture.

The beauty of this breakthrough is serendipity.

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

We understand conscious experiences only in light of our nature as living creatures.