Is our behavior shaped by nature or by nurture, that is, by genes or by environment? Nature and nurture are not exactly like chicken and egg, but more like one big chicken-egg scramble that simmers continuously throughout our lives and is stirred and seasoned all the time.
Press your face firmly into the snow and the imprint looks like the real thing. This optical illusion reveals how your brain functions.
Research from the Donders institute reveals that imagining something can be very much like seeing it with your eyes, and vice versa.
Imagine that it’s Christmas and, as every year, you ask for money— no risk of being disappointed and you can buy whatever you want with it. But it doesn’t quite feel the same as if you’d received a surprise, does it?
It has become easier to train an algorithm than it is to reason about whether or not one should.
New research shows that mindfulness as a treatment for ADHD, also brings forth insight, acceptation and improved relationships.
Recent research shows that infants tailor attention towards what they learn from the most.
Is bouncing back from adversities and stress a skill you learn or an inherent capability that some of us are lucky enough to possess?
You see what you see, right? Well, it’s not that simple. It turns out that
Ritalin is prescribed to people diagnosed with ADHD so that they can study better. For this reason, students without ADHD have also begun to use Ritalin. But does such a pill work as well for them as it does for students with ADHD?