Mind & Brain

Where is the line between knowing and guessing?

A dazzling new map lights up the fruit fly brain

A new study suggests AI can analyze cardiac activity to predict whether a song will be a hit before it’s released. But some hit-song scientists are skeptical

John O’Keefe shared the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience in 2014 for discovering that neurons in the hippocampus encode an animal’s location and create a cognitive map for navigation.

This podcast was produced for the Kavli Prize by Scientific American Custom Media, a division separate from the magazine’s board of editors.

Wildfires can have mental health impacts, both among those who are directly affected and those who find themselves under a blanket of smoke

Older people show significant cognitive benefits from learning, provided they have the opportunity to do so

A brain scientist and a philosopher have resolved a wager on consciousness that was made when Bill Clinton was president

A 1943 paper highlighted “Donald T.” as “Case 1” of 11 children with “autistic disturbances of affective contact”

Our sense of time can expand or contract with the rhythm of each heartbeat

Fathers and nonbirthing parents benefit from skin-to-skin contact with their newborns

Teacher feedback that gives students options can make them feel empowered

Therapy apps are incorporating AI programs such as ChatGPT. But such programs could provide unvetted or harmful feedback if they’re not well regulated