What distinguishes a random collection of people on a subway from a meaningful psychological group? Research on inter-brain coupling suggests that when people collectively focus and coordinate action, shared identity springs to life.
Dream research began before Freud, REM sleep isn’t the only stage when we dream, how researchers study dream hacking, and more on the science of dreams with Robert Stickgold.
We are experiencing too much of the wrong kind of light at the wrong part of the day, writes Ainissa Ramirez. Here’s how these lights affect our health and some ideas for what we can do about it.
We typically try to avoid boredom. But in trying to outrun boredom, we risk failing to heed its call.
Buzzy headlines cloud our understanding of how advanced AI really is. We should stop focusing on apocalyptic scenarios, says cognitive scientist Gary Marcus, and start making AI more useful.
The ways we typically talk about the brain lead to a neuro-mythology, one that fails to either advance public understanding or meaningfully answer how the brain and mind work.