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
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
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
ORIGINAL Video/Neuroscience A happy life is built on pleasures such as sex and food, but also company and variety 7 minutes
Video/Cognition & Intelligence Optical illusions show how past experience dramatically influences perception 4 minutes
Video/Neurodiversity How the ‘Island of the Colourblind’ made Oliver Sacks rethink ‘normal’ 6 minutes
Idea/Cognition & Intelligence On shared false memories: what lies behind the Mandela effect Caitlin Aamodt
Essay/Neuroscience Living in the now She can paint, but not name a painting; learn new music without knowing a tune. Lonni Sue is teaching us much about memory. Michael D Lemonick
Essay/Neuroscience Maps in the head How animals navigate their way around provides clues to how the brain forms, stores and retrieves memories Kate Jeffery
Essay/Neuroscience Here’s looking at you Filmmakers have tapped laws of perception still unexplored by neuroscience to create a visual feast in the brain Jeffrey M Zacks
Essay/Mental Health The lizard inside Like a reptile lodged within me, paranoia hatches unbelievable conspiracies that my mind embraces with stunning naivety Roberta Payne
Video/Mood & Emotion How the sounds of solitary confinement might be worse than the isolation 3 minutes
Essay/Neuroscience Mesmerising Look into my eyes: the fantastical history, mysterious healing power and emergent neuroscience of hypnosis Erik Vance
Essay/Neuroscience The real problem It looks like scientists and philosophers might have made consciousness far more mysterious than it needs to be Anil K Seth
ORIGINAL Video/Neuroscience Aristotle was wrong and so are we: there are far more than five senses 6 minutes