Cognition

Rigorous new studies should be able to settle the matter

Horses picked out photographs of their current keepers, and even of former keepers whom they had not seen in months, at a rate much better than chance.

How googly eyes hack your visual circuits

 The best way to have a good death is to live a good life

Oxpeckers riding on rhinoceroses feast on ticks, and their calls warn the nearsighted herbivores about approaching humans.

Resilience and strength can often be attained through unexpected routes

Painted images of intriguing human-animal hybrids are signs of modern thought

As psychologist Abraham Maslow wrote, “Perhaps human nature has been sold short”

Neurons in the hippocampus categorize what we experience into abstract, discrete events, such as taking a walk versus having lunch

As Abraham Maslow wrote, “One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again”

Cognitive-behavioral therapy improved both symptoms and markers of senescence in people with anxiety

Most of us have experienced deja vu—that sensation when new events feel eerily familiar. Could this "glitch in the Matrix" be a brain short-circuit?