Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Using a combined approach of monkey electrophysiology, artificial neural networks and human psychophysics, Xue et al. show that neuronal interference from irrelevant information underlies behavioral e...

What To Fear from AI Agents and How to Reclaim Our Human Agency

AI is the hottest game in town, but it is not new. The big question is "can it be programmed to be conscious?" That logic misunderstands both the brain and consciousness.

Scientists are probing whether language models trained on historical data can reproduce creative breakthroughs.

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Memory and perception both require selecting behaviorally relevant information. Here, the authors show that more distinct hippocampal memories are linked to precise anticipatory signals in visual cort...

A prominent psychologist and meditation teacher set out to research the benefits of the practice. What she found alarmed her.

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Abstract. Many studies have claimed the existence of unconscious priming, but a valid statistical procedure for substantiating such claims is often lacking

Attention forms a key, yet elusive component of visual processing. We shift attention constantly across the visual field to enhance processing of relevant locations or stimuli in service of goal-direc...

Are you interested in understanding how attention shapes what we see? Would you like to combine behavioural experiments, psychophysics, and eye tracking to uncover how the brain selects and prioritise...

Are you interested in understanding how attention shapes what we see? Would you like to combine behavioural experiments, psychophysics, and eye tracking to uncover how the brain selects and prioritise...

Mizrachi et al. show that directing attention to bodily sensations, rather than away, promotes more regulated acute inflammatory responses in healthy volunteers, revealing sensory and vagal pathways l...

By the time we’re born, our brains have all the hardware in place to form thoughts, and possibly even some conscious awareness

To devise effective interventions for obsessive-compulsive disorder, it is crucial to understand antecedents to symptom emergence. Here, the authors show evidence for self- and decision making underco...

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The 'Breaking' News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident - A Technical Reconstruction and Its Implications for AI When AI Goes Rogue. The Incident That Changed Everything. An OpenAI evaluation agent…

Large language models (LLMs) often produce homogeneous outputs, raising concerns that AI coding assistants may lead to convergence in the software artifacts that developers create. Whether this occurs...

Scientific Reports - Nested contextual change and the temporal compression of episodic memory

Research suggests that the combination of incentives to publish and the use of large language models will lead to more papers, but they will be less refined.

By Nick Gaspelin and Yue Zhang Zhang, Y. & Gaspelin, N. (2026a). From capture to control: Initial capture increases learned suppression. Psychological Science. 37(4), 2…

Psychologist Alison Gopnik tells three stories about intelligence — a golem, a pot of stone soup, and a digital child — to explain what AI still can't do.

Gaze behavior and brain activity are tightly coupled during perception and mental imagery. Whether this coupling extends to eyes-closed states remains largely unknown, primarily because measuring eye ...