Ongoing thoughts at rest reflect functional brain organization and behaviour
Buckner, R. L., Andrews-Hanna, J. R. & Schacter, D. L. The brain’s default network: anatomy, function, and relevance to ...
Mentalizing and heuristics as distinct cognitive strategies in human teaching
Csibra, G. & Gergely, G. Natural pedagogy. Trends Cogn. Sci. 13, 148–153 (2009).
Childhood trauma may leave a lasting “scar” inside brain cells
Severe stress during childhood can increase a person's vulnerability to anxiety, depression, and other mood disorders when new challeng...
Educational interventions are effective in improving students’ ethical and moral outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Hudson, T D. & Brandenberger, J. College students’ moral and prosocial responsibility: associations with community engag...
The great American road trip is in peril
My husband, friends, and I sat huddled at a faux-marble-topped table in the lobby of our Utah hotel, looking down ...
Public perceptions of polygenic testing and embryo selection for non-medical traits
All deviations from the methods and results can be found in the ‘Deviations from registered protocol’ section. ...
Your brain may not actually “make” decisions
What we experience when making a decision may be very different from what actually happens inside the brain, according to Indiana Unive...
What Blade Runner got right about AI
The future the film imagined was analog, cramped, and rain-lit — and it got the feeling of the work exactly right. AI assisted.A 1982 f...
Depression may shut down the brain’s ability to make new neurons
Most of the brain's roughly 100 billion neurons are produced before birth. However, the small number of new neurons that continue to fo...
Shingles vaccine linked to 24% lower dementia risk
Older adults who received a shingles vaccine after entering a skilled nursing facility were less likely to be diagnosed with dementia o...