Stories by Ingrid Wickelgren

Welcome to my blog! Who am I? I am an award-winning journalist and author, and an editor at Scientific American Mind. I have worked as a Contributing Correspondent for Science, where I covered biomedical and neuroscience topics for a decade.

How to unlock your untapped ingenuity

Daydreaming and downtime can lead to solutions for difficult scientific problems and provide inspiration for creative works. Some of history's best-known scientific and literary achievements grew out of such mental meandering

Our ability to communicate is inseparable from our musical sense. This is an audio slideshow presentation of the feature, "Speaking in Tones," which appears in the July/August 2010 issue of Scientific American MIND.

Hearing certain sounds during slumber can spur learning, according to research detailed at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society's annual meeting in Montreal

Feelings, especially unconscious ones, can affect financial decisions, so it's a good idea to monitor your moods

A new study suggests that stress boosts women's awareness of facial expressions and emotions—but has an antisocial influence in men

Researchers are unraveling why some people are more sensitive to pain than others. Their efforts could lead to more accurate diagnoses, better pain prevention, and safer, more powerful painkillers

Researchers uncover the roots of essential tremor