Here's how the brain's attention filter turns your focus into your reality — and the search query rewrite that changes what you find.

GPS ruined our sense of direction. Search engines weaken our memory. AI, scientists warn, could do the same to everything from creativity to critical thinking.

"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 ...

A new study from experts with Georgia State University has achieved a long-standing goal in neuroscience: showing how the brain's smallest components build the systems that shape thought, emotion and ...

The brain constantly blends split-second reactions with slower, more thoughtful processing, and new research shows how it pulls this off. Scientists discovered that brain regions operate on different ...

Displayed on a wall in my study is a diagram taken from a children’s encyclopedia dating from the 1930s. It’s labeled “The Central Control Station of Your Body,” and consists of a cutaway view of the ...