Unleashing Creativity
Moments of brilliance arise from complex cognitive processes. Piece by piece, researchers are uncovering the secrets of creative thinking
Features
Fact or Phrenology?
The growing controversy over fMRI scans is forcing us to confront whether brain equals mind
Strangely Familiar
Researchers are starting to pin down what déjà vu is and why it arises. But have you read this already? Maybe you just can't remember
Drowning Mr. M
He knows he is suffocating at the bottom of the pool, but he doesn't feel like swimming right now
Neuroscience and the Law
If scientists can prove that the brain determines the mind, lawyers could convince juries that defendants may not be responsible for their crimes
What's Wrong with This Picture?
Psychologists often use the famous Rorschach inkblot test and related tools to assess personality and mental illness. But research says the instruments are frequently ineffective for those purposes...
Alien Friends
For people with Capgras syndrome, loved ones have been taken over by body doubles. Their experience teaches us that feelings are integral to perception
The Will to Win
More and more athletes are engaging in mental workouts to give themselves that extra edge
Finding Our Way
The human positioning system helps us navigate an unfamiliar city and may underlie general memory and thought
Friend or Foe?
How we instantly size up people has little to do with logic and a lot to do with looks
Right Brain May Be Wrong
Classical neuroscience holds that the brain's right hemisphere processes the emotions behind faces and voices, while the left hemisphere handles the facts involved. Or not
Leonardo da Vinci, Neuroscientist
Five centuries ago the artist-engineer leaped past his contemporaries in developing a more scientific understanding of the brain
Departments
- From the Editor
Tapping the Muse
- Head Lines
Distance Therapy
Alzheimer's Vaccine?
Lone Neuron Cut
Language Pathway Revealed
Finding Autism Earlier
Primates Protest: Unfair!
Chronic Collectors
Smart Exercise
Zen Gamma
- Illusions
Mind the Gap
- Perspectives
Watching Prodigies for the Dark Side
Abnormal as Norm
Feeling Our Emotions
- Reviews and Recommendations
MIND Reviews: April/May 2005
- Head Games
Head Games
- Think Better
Make Yourself Happy
