Research Articles
The Silent Conversation: How Motion and Texture Create Our Sense of Touch
Explore the fascinating interaction between motion and texture in human touch perception, from neural mechanisms to real-world applications.
The Surprising Science of Motivation: How Your Brain's Drive Shapes Focus and Control
Explore how motivation influences cognitive control through the story of a retracted scientific paper and discover the neuroscience behind focus and willpower.
The Science of Food Addiction: When Eating Becomes Compulsive
Explore the science behind food addiction, including neurobiological mechanisms, diagnostic criteria, and multidisciplinary treatment approaches.
Hard-Wired for Good: The Surprising Science of Human Altruism
Explore the fascinating science behind human altruism, revealing how our brains, genes, and evolutionary history have conspired to make us a fundamentally pro-social species.
The Ghost in the Both: Are Our Machines Just Mimicking Minds?
Exploring the fundamental differences between artificial intelligence and biological intelligence through cognitive science experiments
The Synaptic Saboteur: How a Faulty Gene Isoform Unlocks Schizophrenia's Secrets
Exploring how NRG1-IV transgenic mouse models reveal insights into schizophrenia's biological mechanisms and potential treatments.
Beyond the Nerve: How the Brain's Expectations Shape Chronic Clitoral Pain
Exploring the groundbreaking expectancy-based model of clitorodynia and how the brain's expectations influence chronic clitoral pain perception.
The Brain's Master Conductors: How Tiny Hypothalamic Neurons Orchestrate Complex Behaviors
Discover how discrete populations of hypothalamic neurons function as master conductors, orchestrating complex behaviors like hunger, sleep, and social interaction.
The Addicted Brain: Listening to the Electric Whisper of Craving
How scientists are using EEG to decode the brain's secret battle with addiction through brainwave analysis and cue reactivity studies.
A New Science of Emotion: Rewriting the Rules of the Mind and Brain
Exploring how the revolutionary theory of constructed emotion is transforming our understanding and treatment of Functional Neurological Disorder (FND)