Mind & Brain
Monkeys Hear Voices
Introduction By Jonah Lehrer, Editor, Mind Matters The ability to communicate with language is one of the defining talents of the human mind.
Stories by Mind Matters
Mind & Brain
Climbing Mountains Kills Brain Cells
Back in September, R. Douglas Fields, a senior investigator at the NIH, wrote a really interesting post for Mind Matters on the neural hazards of tall mountains.
Mind & Brain
Recognizing the Familiar
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Is Familiarity Different Than Remembering?
Brock Kirwan
UCSD
Have you ever had the experience of seeing someone in the grocery store that you know you've already met, but you can't quite remember where or when you met them?...
Mind & Brain
The Power of Power Naps
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Tired? Take A Nap
Jessica Payne and Matthew Walker
Harvard University and University of California at Berkeley
Sleep is such a fundamental biological drive that it's shared by practically every species, from fruit flies to humans...
Mind & Brain
The Reading Brain
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Routes to Reading
Maryanne Wolf, Mirit Barzillai, and Elizabeth Norton
Tufts University
Reading changed the course of intellectual development in our species...
Mind & Brain
Autism, the Cingulate and Social Interactions
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The Neural Substrate of Trust and Reputation Management
Chris and Uta Frith
University College London
When Leo Kanner first diagnosed a group of 11 children as autistic in 1943, he described the syndrome as one of "extreme aloneness." ("Aut" is greek for "self," and autism translates as "the state of being unto one's self.") The syndrome afflicts 1 in every 160 individuals, and it leaves them emotionally isolated, incapable of engaging in many of the social interactions that most of us take for granted...
Mind & Brain
Thinking With the Body
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Emodied Cognition
Art Glenberg
Arizona State University
It has become commonplace in neuroscience - and even in everyday conversation - to compare human cognition to that of computers...
Mind & Brain
Are Chimps More Rational than Humans?
Before we get to this week's post, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Jonah Lehrer and I'm the new editor/curator of Mind Matters, taking over from David Dobbs, who did such a wonderful job developing this site and getting it off the ground...
Mind & Brain
The Stress of Poverty Changes the Brain
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A Neural Correlate for Social Class
Mauricio Delgado
Rutgers University
Membership in a high social class is thought to contribute to good mental well-being and physical health...
The Sciences
How Harvard students perceive rednecks: The neural basis for prejudice
The source of many of the world's woes might be tracked to a specific brain area responsible for identifying people that are not of our ilk.
The Sciences
Working Memory: They Found Your Brain's Spam Filter
Working Memory: The Brain's Spam Filter Located
Andrew W. McCollough & Edward K. Vogel
University of Oregon
What makes you so smart?
The Sciences
Are Whales Smarter Than We Are?
Cetacean brains, such as those of dolphins (left) and humpback whales (right), have even more cortical convolutions and surface area than human brains do.
The Sciences
Stressing the Hippocampus: Why It Matters
A vital part of your brain is named after the animal that its odd, twisting shape resembles: the seahorse, genus Hippocampus . _____________________ J Douglas Bremner Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit Emory University, Atlanta The hippocampus is a brain area involved in memory that animal studies have shown to be sensitive to the effects of stress...
