Essay/ Philosophy of Mind Are you sleepwalking now? Given how little control we have of our wandering minds, how can we cultivate real mental autonomy? Thomas Metzinger
Essay/ Gender & Sexuality The non-binary brain Misogynists are fascinated by the idea that human brains are biologically male or female. But they’ve got the science wrong Emily Willingham
Essay/ Neuroscience Freud in the scanner A revival of interest in the power of introspection and thought has brought Freud’s ideas back into the scientific fold M M Owen
Idea/ Neuroscience ‘Let the soul dangle’: how mind-wandering spurs creativity Julia Christensen, Guido Giglioni & Manos Tsakiris
Essay/ Music Music is not for ears We never just hear music. Our experience of it is saturated in cultural expectations, personal memory and the need to move Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis
Essay/ Mathematics How natural is numeracy? Where does our number sense come from? Is it a neural capacity we are born with — or is it a product of our culture? Philip Ball
Essay/ Neuroscience The kindled brain If each bout of depression, bipolar disorder or PTSD makes another more likely, should sufferers stay on medication for life? Elizabeth Svoboda
ORIGINAL Video/ Cognition & Intelligence For millennia, we’d never seen anything like film cuts. How do we process them so easily? 7 minutes
Essay/ Neuroscience Where pain lives Fixing chronic back pain is possible only when patients understand how much it is produced by the brain, not the spine Cathryn Jakobson Ramin
Essay/ Neuroscience Freud the philosopher Before fathering psychoanalysis, Freud first slayed the dominant Cartesian intellectual tradition of mind-body dualism David Livingstone Smith
Video/ Cognition & Intelligence Why can concave surfaces look convex when viewed from overhead (and vice versa)? 4 minutes
Essay/ Evolution Aliens in our midst The ctenophore’s brain suggests that, if evolution began again, intelligence would re-emerge because nature repeats itself Douglas Fox
Essay/ Neuroscience Now you see it, now you… Seeing things that are hidden; failing to see things in plain sight. How magic exploits the everyday weirdness of perception Vebjørn Ekroll
Idea/ Mental Health Psychopaths have feelings: can they learn how to use them? Arielle Baskin-Sommers
Essay/ Neuroscience When is stress good for you? The subtle flows and toxic hits of stress get under the skin, making and breaking the body and brain over a lifetime Bruce McEwen
Essay/ Philosophy of Mind I attend, therefore I am You are only as strong as your powers of attention, and other uncomfortable truths about the self Carolyn Dicey Jennings
Idea/ Cognition & Intelligence Cognitive dissonance helps old dogs with their new tricks Suzanne Cope
Essay/ Cognition & Intelligence Our world outsmarts us Social problems are fantastically complex, while human minds are severely under-engineered. Is democracy doomed? Robert Burton
Essay/ Neuroscience Touched We ride a stream of naked neurons, stripped of their sheaths, to the most blissful moments and deepest intimacies of life Steven M Phelps