neuroscience

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

The rise and fall of the claustrum epitomizes the hunt for consciousness in the brain.

This nanoscale device meshes seamlessly with your neurons.

It’s time to accept the limits of how we think.

Once we acquire language, we can live without it.

We share the basic experience of life with all mammals.

Where our minds go when words let us down.

Neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux on what makes our brains unique.

Without inner narratives we would be lost in a chaotic world.

A neuroscientist confronts his anguish over experimenting on animals.

The surprising importance of spontaneous order and noise to how we think.