In a paper just published in Psychological Review, we argue that our imagination sculpts the images we see in our mind’s eye ...

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Have you ever wondered how your brain creates thoughts or why something randomly popped into your head? It may seem like magic – but actually the brain is like a supercomputer inside your head that ...

Nature heals the soul, but what does it do to the brain? Have you ever been on a camping or hiking trip to a national park ...

What if the key to being a better manager isn’t found in a new productivity hack, a different feedback framework, or a time management app—but in understanding the three-pound organ inside your head ...

"If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't." — Emerson M. Pugh In a previous piece, I argued that introspection may be our most direct ...

Scientists keep learning more about the connection between the brain and the gastrointestinal system. By Christina Caron Dr.

The simple act of navigating a new place alone sets off a cascade of activity in the brain, engaging systems that most of our ...

The appearance of predictive text in writing an email or text message has become, for better or worse, a regular feature of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How the brain decides what’s real—and why it sometimes fails. It’s a foggy day in New York City. Through my computer screen, I ...