Cognition

We discuss blending philosophy and neuroscience in unraveling the mysteries of free will

Both of two essential brain networks that switch roles—one is on when the other is off—shut down in unresponsive individuals

Style, not substance, drives negative impressions of the social life of people on the autism spectrum

The answer depends on your personality

A study in infants adds to the debate about whether we come into the world prepped for higher cognitive abilities such as face recognition

Saving the Florida panther, cornfield espionage and racial profiling, and more

White matter, the insulation around our neural wiring, plays a critical role in acquiring knowledge 

Such children’s neural circuits do not transition properly from an active state to a resting one

We need to reexamine the idea of “objectivity” in research

What if consciousness is not something special that the brain does but is instead a quality inherent to all matter?

Most feral dogs that did not run away from humans were able to respond to hand cues about the location of food—even without training.

A mouse study shows immune cells gobbling up the connections between memory-associated neurons