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We Shouldn’t Try to Make Conscious Software—Until We Should

Jim Davies | Opinion

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How the Brain Tells Apart Important and Unimportant Sensations

Eiman Azim, Sliman Bensmaia, Lee E. Miller and Chris Versteeg | Opinion

Psychology

Can’t Buy Me Luck: The Role of Serendipity in the Beatles’ Success

Lydia Denworth

Mental Health Care Should Be Available for All, Not a Luxury

The stress of COVID fractured a system that was already cracked

Sarah Sloat

Consciousness

We Shouldn’t Try to Make Conscious Software—Until We Should

Jim Davies | Opinion

Neuroscience

How the Brain Tells Apart Important and Unimportant Sensations

Eiman Azim, Sliman Bensmaia, Lee E. Miller and Chris Versteeg | Opinion

Psychology

Can’t Buy Me Luck: The Role of Serendipity in the Beatles’ Success

Lydia Denworth

Psychology

The Dark Side of Collaboration

Margarita Leib | Opinion

Neuroscience

Mapping the Brain to Understand the Mind

Monique Brouillette and Knowable Magazine

Psychology

Facial Expressions Do Not Reveal Emotions

Lisa Feldman Barrett | Opinion

Creativity

Brainstorming on Zoom Hampers Creativity

Bret Stetka

Neuroscience

Brain-Reading Devices Help Paralyzed People Move, Talk and Touch

Liam Drew and Nature magazine

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Can’t Buy Me Luck: The Role of Serendipity in the Beatles’ Success

The right combination of variables is needed to achieve a blazing success—one explanation for why there was never a “Kinksmania”

How the Brain Tells Apart Important and Unimportant Sensations

Several recent studies point to a small, long-overlooked structure in the brain stem as a crucial gatekeeper for the body’s signals

Eiman Azim, Sliman Bensmaia, Lee E. Miller and Chris Versteeg | Opinion

Facial Expressions Do Not Reveal Emotions

The emotion AI industry, courts and child educators are unknowingly relying on a misunderstanding of Darwin’s ideas

Lisa Feldman Barrett | Opinion

The Dark Side of Collaboration

People working together often scheme to put profits ahead of telling the truth. New research points to ways to stop this behavior

Margarita Leib | Opinion

A New Dimension to a Meaningful Life

Studies suggest that appreciating beauty in the everyday may be just as powerful as a sense of overarching purpose

Joshua Hicks and Frank Martela | Opinion

From Designing a House to Editing Text, Sometimes Less Is More

Our minds tend to create new stuff by piling on to what’s already there, a practice that narrows our thinking

Leidy Klotz | Opinion

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Adolescent Risk-Takers: The Power of Peers

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