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How does the brain distinguish between the "self" and the "other"? A new study gives a clue.
Scientists have developed a robotic arm with knowledge of its physical form – a very basic sense of self.
If you develop an awareness of how you feel you are more likely to be able to change negative thinking patterns.
Few can resist an assessment that promises to reveal your hidden, true self. But new research suggests that people mistakenly believe difficult to answer questions offer deep insights.
Children start to demonstrate self-awareness as they approach their second birthday – and it helps them to learn.
Men and women experience autism differently, which shows something revealing about where autistic characteristics may come from.
It is generally thought that science helps good ideas triumph over bad. But one old and oft-refuted idea that questions why we are who we are, and do what we do, refuses to die.
Just where in the brain is our 'ego'?
New technologies bring questions that have belonged to the abstract realm of philosophers into concrete focus. Why do medical interventions in the brain feel different than those elsewhere in the body?
Here are five scientific studies from the last 12 months with simple tips for raising healthy children.
The pursuit to get into the best colleges has taken out the joy of learning from students' lives.
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