Cognition

Some people find it impossible to imagine a friend’s face or their own apartment—a phenomenon named aphantasia. Scientists are beginning to tease out the brain features underlying the condition

Different people have differing aptitudes for observing small changes and particular features.

What's your dark core score?

Are consciousness, free will and God insoluble mysteries?

Physical motion of neural signals may play a more important role in brain function than previously thought

Six months of piano lessons can heighten kindergartners' brain responses to different pitches, and improve their ability to tell apart two similar-sounding words. Christopher Intagliata reports.

A new paper argues the condition now known as “dissociative identity disorder” might help us understand the fundamental nature of reality

Young people with autism have more psychiatric and medical conditions than do their typical peers or those with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

Ulysses doesn’t solve the hard problem, but it conveys with unsurpassed vividness what it feels like to be human.

Warning a child that something, like a vaccine shot, will hurt can actually increase their perception of the pain.

New findings add fuel to the bilingual advantage debate