Department
Neuroscience
The LabWhat the brain reveals about consciousness, emotion, memory, and the self. Science written for readers who believe rigour and beauty are not opposites.
What the brain reveals about consciousness, emotion, memory, and the self. Science written for readers who believe rigour and beauty are not opposites.
When the mind is given nothing to do, it turns inward. A look at the brain's most mysterious resting state — and why it may be the seat of selfhood.
The LabThe neurons that fire when we watch someone else act. What they tell us about connection — and why the story turned out to be far more complicated than the headlines suggested.
The LabMemory is not a recording. It is a reconstruction. Every time you remember something, you change it — a little or a lot. Here is what that means for who you think you are.
The LabSwitching between languages is not just a linguistic act — it is a cognitive and emotional one. What the bilingual brain reveals about the multiplicity of the self.
ConversationsThe neuroscientist behind the "controlled hallucination" theory of perception talks about what it means to be a self, why consciousness is not what you think, and why that is wonderful.
EssaysOn continuity of self, the Ship of Theseus, and what neuroscience and philosophy have to say about personal identity over time.
A set of brain regions active during rest and self-referential thought — implicated in mind-wandering, autobiographical memory, and the sense of self.
The process by which a retrieved memory re-enters an unstable state and is modified before being stored again — meaning every act of remembering rewrites what is remembered.
The theory that the brain is fundamentally a prediction machine — generating models of the world and updating them when reality surprises it. Anil Seth's "controlled hallucination."