This Is Your Brain In Love
By Mariella Careaga
Just like any other emotion, love has more to do with the brain than you might think.
Among all emotions, love seems to have a special place…
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Evolution
Book Review: Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos
By Caitlin Goodpaster
For the past two hundred thousand years, humans have dominated planet Earth. From the time we were roaming the African savanna, members of Homo sapiens have mastered…
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The Neurobiology of Curiosity
Have you ever heard the saying, “curiosity killed the cat”? While this may be true, curiosity also protects the cat. Curiosity is a highly adaptive characteristic of many animals, from…
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A Close Up Look 11 – Pupils
In this new installment of our infographic series, A Close Up Look, KN Illustrator Gil Torten takes us on a journey through the different pupil shapes found in nature and…
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The Why of the Cry
When you hear a baby relentlessly crying on an airplane, even through your noise-cancelling headphones, you can do nothing but sigh in defeat. With all hope of an in-flight nap…
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El Cerebro, las grasas saludables y la importancia de encajar en nuestros genes
Artículo original: Brain, Healthy Fats, and the Importance of Fitting Into Your Genes, Marco Travaglio
Traducido por Jenna Hartstein
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Nuestros cerebros son muy ricos en grasa. De hecho, cerca…
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Book Review and Author Interview: The Case Against Reality by Donald Hoffman
A full interview with Donald Hoffman follows this book review
Does the moon still exist when you’re not looking at it? In a provocative new book titled The Case Against…
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Brain, Healthy Fats, and the Importance of Fitting Into Your Genes
Our brains are extremely rich in fat. Indeed, about two thirds of the human brain is composed of fat, 35% of which consists of essential polyunsaturated fatty acids. What are…
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Study Sheds New Light on FOXP2 in the Evolution of Language
Language is a uniquely human trait, and how it evolved is one of the greatest unanswered questions in neuroscience. Spoken and written language facilitate much of what makes up human…
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The Strange Order of Things: Book Review
ow do emotions construct human culture? Is culture uniquely human at all?
Hard questions, but some tackled nonetheless by renowned neuroscientist Antonio Damasio in his latest book, The Strange…
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Consciousness: The Final Frontier
When I walk through my kitchen, I smell fresh food and feel warmth radiating off of it. These internal, subjective experiences are called qualia. I assume that my refrigerator, my…
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Cognitive Astrobiology
o here’s a cool combination of fields: neuroscience and astrobiology. Let’s call it “cognitive astrobiology.”…
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The Ultimate Thought Experiment Part II: 2001: A Space Odyssey
In our previous post, we considered the Philip K. Dick novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? in the context of a thought experiment: a thinking tool used by scientists and…
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