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The Florey Institute’s Dr Jee Hyun Kim explains how the different aspects of memory work and why attention is the most important element of improving your memory in this long-form comic explainer.
Maybe you think neuroscience has a peaceable history of benign efforts to improve lives and enhance human capacities. But its origins and development tell a different story – with ethical implications.
Recent research suggests running allows the brain to rest and reduces the need for sleep.
When human contact is cut off, the brain begins to act in strange ways to preserve its sanity.
Insights from psychology, neuroscience, economics and political science on how the incoming president might move people from the extreme right or left of the political spectrum to a sociable centre.
Scientists are increasingly working out that the body actually shapes the mind. New research even raises hopes about new treatments for mental health problems.
Why is figurative language more powerful – and what feelings exactly does it stir in an audience?
A recent study suggested that the brain becomes accustomed to lying, making people merely puppets of their brains. That’s too simple an explanation – and one that lets liars off the hook.
Science has shown that women are better at nurturing and men are better at logic. Or has it?
Heavy drinking causes brain changes that make you want to drink more. But using a virus to deliver a gene into specific neurons in the brain may be a way to mitigate those changes.
Without research on primates, we wouldn’t be able to understand the human brain – or repair it.
Our study published this week shows a new method to induce and measure visual hallucinations in anyone at any time.
While AI seems unstoppable, our improved understanding of human brains is levelling the playing field for now.
If you are a ballet dancer or gymnast, a watch-maker or surgeon, your brain connections in the motor system will differ depending on your skills for fine movements in different parts of your body.
Many regions fundamental to mood are buried deep in the most primordial parts of the brain; that is, they are thought to have been among the first brain regions to develop in the human species.
Many people believe they have a soul. But for psychologists, who study behaviour, it is not so much that souls do not exist, it is that there is no need for them.
How will neurotech evolve? An NAS workshop this week focuses on social and ethical opportunities and challenges we face both now and down the road.
Welcome to the world of cloths and materials that change depending on your mood.
Are you impulsive and easily bored? You may be a thrill seeker.
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Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology, University of Cambridge
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Penn State
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Senior lecturer, University of Adelaide
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Cambridge
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Cognitive Neurosciences, The University of Queensland
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Head of Developmental Psychobiology Lab, Deakin University
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Senior Research Fellow, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
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Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Bangor University
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Professor Emeritus of Cognitive NeuroImaging, Aston University
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Associate Professor of Family & Community Medicine and Pediatrics, retired, University of California, San Francisco
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Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology, Trinity College Dublin
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Associate Professor at the Institute for Social Neuroscience in Melbourne, Australia, The University of Melbourne
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Technical Officer, Deakin University
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Associate Professor and Head of Decision Neuroscience Laboratory, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Psychological Science, Western Sydney University
