Tag: Neuroscience
The Neuroscience behind the ‘Parenting Paradox’ of Happiness
October 29, 20255 min readThe Neuroscience behind the ‘Parenting Paradox’ of HappinessSeparate brain processes cope with moment-to-moment versus big-picture experiences, which helps explain...
Neuroscience and Art Collide in a Posthumous ‘Composition’ by Alvin Lucier...
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.Plenty of us would find it difficult to compose a new piece of music...
Good Conversations Don’t Require Everybody to Agree, Neuroscience Shows
September 25, 20255 min readGood Conversations Don’t Require Everybody to Agree, Neuroscience ShowsBrain imaging is illuminating the patterns linked to productive, positive dialogue,...
How and Why Humans Began to Sing, a Musicology and Neuroscience...
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. We’re wrapping up our week of summer reruns with one of my absolute...
Engineered Viruses Are Transforming Neuroscience and Treating Brain Disease
The brain is like an ecosystem—thousands of different types of cells connect to form one big, interdependent web. And just as biologists document...
Murderbot’s Cyborg Brain Explained by Neuroscience
Murderbot, the titular character of a new television show on Apple TV+, doesn’t do much murdering. Instead it enjoys the freedom of having...
Where Does Consciousness Come from? Two Neuroscience Theories Go Head-to-Head
Where in the brain does consciousness originate? Theories abound, but neuroscientists still haven’t coalesced around one explanation, largely because it’s such a hard...
The Neuroscience of Severance: What’s Real? What’s Fake?
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research.Severance, which imagines a world where a...
Why Love Feels Like Addiction: Neuroscience Behind Our Strongest Emotions
A new study suggests that love, in all its forms, stimulates the reward and addiction systems of the brain-those same parts of the...
Gazing at your dog can connect your brain with theirs, finds...
It might sound far-fetched, but recent research suggests that dogs' and humans' brains synchronise when they look at each other.This research, conducted by...
