Scientific American Mind - USA (2022-03 & 2022-04)

NEUROSCIENCE How Our Brain Preserves Our Sense of Self One brain region is crucial for our ability to form and maintain a consis ...

related to one’s self is privileged and more salient in our thoughts. Self­related memories are distinct from both episodic memo ...

this process of recalling present details and imag­ ining future ones that build on our recollections. The prefrontal cortex, in ...

EVOLUTION New Clues about the Origins of Biological Intelligence A common solution is emerging in two different fields: developm ...

networks. Arguably, understanding the origin of intelligence is the central problem in biology—one that is still wide open. In t ...

represent the family in meetings and engage it when needed. These trigger points serve to repre­ sent the entire module and thus ...

NEUROSCIENCE People Love the Brain for the Wrong Reasons Our fascination with brain-based explanations of psychology arises from ...

gion. The brain details were entirely superflu­ ous—they did nothing to improve the explanation, as judged by neuroscientists. Y ...

in past work and found it slips into many of our tacit assumptions about cognition. For example, people suspect that thoughts ar ...

Here Be Dragons A gaming cartographer discovers an uncharted perceptual realm On December 2021, Lesha Porche, an illustrator and ...

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