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Why we learn the wrong things from narrative history, and how our love for stories is hard-wired.To understand something, you need to know its history. Right? Wrong, says Alex …
How we filter out what is irrelevant so we can focus on what we need to know.We are surrounded by a world rich with visual information, but we pay attention to very little of it, …
How hormonal signals in one small structure of the brain-the hypothalamus-govern our physiology and behavior.As human beings, we prefer to think of ourselves as reasonable. But how …
Two distinguished neuroscientists distil general principles from more than a century of scientific study, "reverse engineering" the brain to understand its design.Neuroscience …
A leading scientist describes his life, his gender transition, his scientific work, and his advocacy for gender equality in science.Ben Barres was known for his groundbreaking …
An overview of today's diverse theoretical and methodological approaches to action and the relationship of action and cognition.The emerging field of action science is …
A unified treatment of the generation and analysis of brain-generated electromagnetic fields.In Brain Signals, Risto Ilmoniemi and Jukka Sarvas present the basic physical and …
A unique overview of the human language faculty at all levels of organization.Language is not only one of the most complex cognitive functions that we command, it is also the …
An in-depth exploration of the interaction between mind and material world, mediated by language, image, and making-in design, the arts, culture, and science.In Material and Mind, …
How our intuitive understanding of numbers is deeply rooted in our biology, traceable through both evolution and development.Humans' understanding of numbers is intuitive. Infants …