Cognition

Rats learned to drive tiny cars as a model for acquiring new skills

Reactivating remembered problems during sleep can trigger solutions

Improvements are seen after playing a modified version of Guess Who?

You detect a tool’s contact with an object as if you placed your own finger on it

The findings challenge textbook ideas about how visual cortex cells process imagery

A seminal psychologist who explored the positive, creative and productive aspects of daydreaming has passed away at the age of 95

A freewheeling symposium explores experiences, theories and philosophies that challenge conventional materialist science

New research casts light on viral illusions

New approaches are shedding light on the magnitude of sex differences in personality, and the results are so strong and pervasive that they can no longer be ignored

Philosopher Hedda Hassel Mørch defends the idea that consciousness pervades the cosmos

It did no such thing—but the result has become conventional wisdom nevertheless

AI may equal human intelligence without matching the true nature of our experiences