Existing digital models of the human brain risk missing out on what makes you ‘you’.
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Facing your own thoughts and sensations, without trying to suppress them, is harder than it may seem. But learning to do it can boost your mental health.
Your mind goes blank in the supermarket. What was it you meant to buy? Here’s what’s going on in your brain and when you need to see your GP.
Do you dry your hair before going out to avoid catching a cold? That’s even if you know viruses are the real cause? Here’s what’s going on.
Science has done many things that seem miraculous. Why not transfer your consciousness to a machine?
What if we could experience the mind of another person in a video game?
Brain scanners and AI can turn brainwaves into streams of text – but language only captures a tiny fraction of our mental experience.
AI will not become sentient and decide to kill us all. But our own conscious or unconscious beliefs about AI can potentially increase the likelihood of any outcome, including catastrophic ones.
The mind is a powerful thing – it can generate both symptoms of illness and symptoms of healing. Here’s what this could tell us about consciousness.
Whether they’re in a classroom or online, students should be encouraged to move around. An expert on learning with technology explains why.
Non-specific illnesses, such as headache and fatigue, are common, as are mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety.
The pandemic has exposed some truths about human psychology and behaviour.
We are in a battle for our minds. And it isn’t clear we will win.
Three classic examples of the “Mandala Effect” debunked.
Video feedback may be the nearest we have to visualising what conscious processing in the brain is like.
Compulsory sport and physical education at school will improve children’s memory, attention and ability to concentrate, not just boost fitness. The evidence is in.
Using mind reading technologies in court could become common practice.
Neuroscientists are questioning how it is that physical matter comes together to make the mind.
fMRI brain scans are coming frighteningly close to opening a window into our thoughts.
Scientists are increasingly working out that the body actually shapes the mind. New research even raises hopes about new treatments for mental health problems.
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