
Hear what you want to hear? Don't worry, you're only human
New research illustrates how we tend to select our own realities by deliberately avoiding information that threatens our happiness and wellbeing.
New research illustrates how we tend to select our own realities by deliberately avoiding information that threatens our happiness and wellbeing.
Whether a fault line in any modern conflict is sectarian, ethnic, or ideological, people’s devotion to the values that define their communities can make it seem as if violence along their...
The structural connections in your brain are unique to you, say scientists, who have developed a way to “fingerprint” the human brain.
When the brain “reads” or decodes a sentence in English or Portuguese, its neural activation patterns are the same, researchers report.
The same brain systems that humans used 200,000 years ago for day-to-day survival are the same brain systems we use today to learn abstract concepts, like momentum, energy, and gravity, w...