Dopamine maintains hope and motivation for life. Inflammation-associated compounds disrupt dopamine release, causing apathy.

A new study offers insight into what is happening in our brains when our working memory must use its limited resources to remember multiple things. Researchers found that two parts of the brain work ...

Renowned philosopher and cognitive scientist Dr. David Chalmers is bringing his lecture, ‘Can ChatGPT Think?’ to Augustana.

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PASS theory explains cognition through four processes—planning, attention, simultaneous, and successive—that offer a dynamic ...

Your brain is not a hard drive—it’s better. With the right training, it can store, recall, and process information with ...

In the near future, doctors may not only be able to identify whether a person is at high risk for a serious, age-related ...

Biophilic environments are becoming essential. As more people experience overstimulation, this return to nature represents a ...

Science may be able to explain the true cause of apparent religious visions, which could in fact be nothing more than a ...

When Logic FailsFor centuries, economics was built on a clean, mathematical premise: people make rational choices. They weigh costs ...

The World Central Kitchen founder shares insights from his new book ‘Change the Recipe.’ ...

Lee Perlman, PhD ’89, and MIT’s Educational JusticeInstitute go behind bars to change the course of lives—and broaden the ...