Features

• Strangely Familiar

  Researchers are starting to pin down what d¿j¿ vu is and why it arises. But have you read this already? Maybe you just can't remember

  Uwe Wolfradt   | April 1, 2005  |

• Friend or Foe?

  How we instantly size up people has little to do with logic and a lot to do with looks

  Marion Sonnenmoser   | April 1, 2005  |

• What's Wrong with This Picture?

  Psychologists often use the famous Rorschach inkblot test and related tools to assess personality and mental illness. But research says the instruments are frequently ineffective for those purposes

  Scott O. Lilienfeld, James M. Wood and Howard N. Garb   | April 1, 2005  | 4

• Unleashing Creativity

  Moments of brilliance arise from complex cognitive processes. Piece by piece, researchers are uncovering the secrets of creative thinking

  Ulrich Kraft   | April 1, 2005  |

• Alien Friends

  For people with Capgras syndrome, loved ones have been taken over by body doubles. Their experience teaches us that feelings are integral to perception

  Thomas Grüter and Ulrich Kraft   | April 1, 2005  | 1

• Finding Our Way

  The human positioning system helps us navigate an unfamiliar city and may underlie general memory and thought

  Hanspeter A. Mallot   | April 1, 2005  |

• Leonardo da Vinci, Neuroscientist

  Five centuries ago the artist-engineer leaped past his contemporaries in developing a more scientific understanding of the brain

  Jonathan Pevsner   | April 1, 2005  |

• The Will to Win

  More and more athletes are engaging in mental workouts to give themselves that extra edge

  Steve J. Ayan   | April 1, 2005  |

• Drowning Mr. M

  He knows he is suffocating at the bottom of the pool, but he doesn't feel like swimming right now

  Patrick Verstichel and Pascale Larrouy   | April 1, 2005  |

• Fact or Phrenology?

  The growing controversy over fMRI scans is forcing us to confront whether brain equals mind

  David Dobbs   | April 1, 2005  |

• Right Brain May Be Wrong

  Classical neuroscience holds that the brain¿s right hemisphere processes the emotions behind faces and voices, while the left hemisphere handles the facts involved. Or not

  Steve J. Ayan   | April 1, 2005  |

• Neuroscience and the Law

  If scientists can prove that the brain determines the mind, lawyers could convince juries that defendants may not be responsible for their crimes

  Michael S. Gazzaniga and Megan S. Steven   | April 1, 2005  |