Confidence guides our decisions: it determines when we commit to a choice, gather more information, or change our minds. Prominent models treat confidence as a readout of the evidence in support of a ...

The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, which is affiliated with Drexel University, cited attendance struggles and higher costs in its decision to close.

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Knowledge of the spatial location of a gene is necessary to understand its epigenomic regulation.

An updated view of categorization reflects the modern understanding that the nervous system is more of a prediction engine than a filing cabinet.

In this article I argue that evolutionary psychological strategies for making inferences about present-day human psychology are methodologically unsound. Evolutionary psychology is committed to the vi...

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Cognition and consciousness may arise from bidirectional interactions between neuronal spiking and rhythmic electric field activity (brain waves). Goal-directed behavior relies on top-down control to ...

Computational explanations of cognition, though powerful, aren’t the only game in town.

Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel for his work on a disease in Papua New Guinea. But his biggest experiment was on the children he took back to the U.S.

The story of functional neurological disorder is beginning to turn a corner.

Consciousness is not separate from the physical world — our “soul” is of the same nature as our body and any other phenomenon of the world.

Can molecular memories of our ancestors’ experiences affect our own behaviour and physiology? That idea has certainly...

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This piece provides an overview of my fifty-year career as a neuroscientist. I spent much of this time trying to understand what emotions are and how they relate to human behavior and consciousness. I...

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