Why Blinking Is so Important for Brain Function
You don’t tend to notice it but you are blinking all the time. Blinking is a completely unconscious process, until the point where we…
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Are Dolphins Smarter Than Humans?
One of the defining traits of humanity – other than our intelligence – is just how smart we think we are. Since the dawn…
Read MoreWhy Is the Brain Wrinkly?
If you were to pull out your brain (don’t…), you would find that it was covered in wrinkles a bit like a prune. This…
Read MoreDopamine, Creativity, Genius and Madness
Dopamine is the neurotransmitter that we tend to associate with ‘reward’. Whenever we do something that our brain/body thinks is ‘positive’ (winning the lottery…
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Some Fascinating Psychology Thought Experiments That We May Never Know the Answers To…
You know the Andromeda galaxy? It’s a spiral galaxy that you can see in the night sky that’s roughly 2.5 million light-years away. It’s…
Read MoreHow Psychologists Study the Brain
The old saying goes that if the brain were simple enough to understand, then we would be too simple to understand it. We’re a…
Read MoreHow a Mirror Can Cure Phantom Limb Syndrome, And What That Tells Us About the Brain
Phantom limb syndrome is a fascinating but unfortunate condition that affects amputees who have lost a limb during their lifetime (as opposed to losing…
Read MoreWhat Is the Collective Unconscious?
First I’d like to set something straight: there is no such thing as a subconscious. This is a term used constantly, even by psychologists,…
Read MoreHow to Experience Hallucinations Through Sensory Deprivation
Those of us who have an interest in the human mind might be almost envious in a way of those who have experienced hallucinations….
Read MoreWhere Do Ideas and Creativity Come From in the Brain? Part Three: Functional Fixedness and Our Ingenuity
If creativity comes from cross-talk between brain regions (as discussed in part two), then where might our ability to build computers and to think…
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