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A neuroscientist put free soloist Alex Honnold in a brain scanner and showed him image after gruesome…
A smell can drag you back decades, and one likely reason is that, unlike your other senses, it travels…
When the smell of a grandmother’s kitchen suddenly brings back an afternoon from 60 years ago, it isn’t…
On June 1, 1932, nearly every 11-year-old in Scotland sat the same intelligence test
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John O'Keefe found cells in a rat's hippocampus in 1971 that fired whenever it was at one place in a room while…
We carry something like a GPS in the brain, and some people seem to have more of it working for them. It started with…
Women who say they were never quite the same after having children aren’t exaggerating
People who still want to hear their mother’s voice after a hard day aren’t being childish
In the 1920s, a Moscow reporter named Solomon Shereshevsky was sent to a psychologist because he never took notes…
A Moscow reporter who never took notes was sent to a psychology lab in the 1920s, and Alexander Luria could not find the edge…
