This creates a powerful loop: a negative thought enters the brain, and, due to its distressing contents, the brain signals ...

Artificial intelligence is no longer just a tool that sits outside our heads. It is starting to seep into how we remember, decide and even imagine, blurring the line between human thought and machine ...

Humans possess a remarkable balance between stability and flexibility, enabling them to quickly establish new plans and ...

The spark of creativity, that seemingly mysterious capacity to generate novel and valuable ideas, has intrigued humanity for centuries. Once attributed primarily to divine inspiration or innate genius ...

We've all been there. Moments after leaving a party, your brain is suddenly filled with intrusive thoughts about what others were thinking. "Did they think I talked too much?" "Did my joke offend them ...

One thing that distinguishes human beings is their capacity for proactive, prolonged aggression, a human characteristic that results from the complex consciousness created by language. 1 Since threats ...

A team of researchers at UCL and UCLH have identified the key brain regions that are essential for logical thinking and problem solving. The findings, published in Brain, help to increase our ...

Even consciousness could reveal its secrets someday with this realistic simulation, researchers hope. It will not only ...

Brain organoids can be a good step forward, assuming they are grown from induced human pluripotent stem cells. That allows us to sidestep ethical concerns about the use of human embryos, thereby ...

For years, business culture has boxed us in. You’re either a “numbers person” or a “creative.” Analytical or instinctive. Tactical or inspired. Left-brained or right-brained. Poets on one side, quants ...