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Why Your Brain Turns Life Into Stories
It would be decades before people found the brain circuitry that underlies this construction. Doing so required both new technology and the courage to use it in a novel way. Developed in 1991, functional magnetic
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3 Sleep Facts You May Not Have Known
Sleep is crucial for our overall health, helping to support brain function, emotional regulation, a healthy immune system and more. Here are three tips to help you get the most from your sleep. Don’t rely
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What Doctors Want You to Know About ‘Catch-Up’ Sleep
You’ve spent Monday through Friday running on five hours of sleep, working late nights and waking up early just to do it all over again. On Saturday, you get 12 glorious hours of shut-eye and
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Laurie Santos: Americans and the Pursuit of Happiness
On “The Interview,” Laurie Santos, a cognitive scientist and a professor at Yale, says that Americans think about happiness in unique ways, and they have for a long time.
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What Do Human and Machine Minds Have to Offer Each Other?
Former Editor-in-Chief and APS Fellow Robert Goldstone (Indiana University) pulls together a collection featuring voices at the intersection of psychology and AI.
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The Attention-Span Panic
… A great irony of this contemporary insecurity about attention is that, compared with the rest of the animal kingdom, the human attention span is really not that impressive. Although we have many exceptional cognitive
