Skeptophilia

Picture a place you know well.  Your house, your apartment, a park, a church, a school.  You can probably imagine it, remember what it's...

The main character of Haruki Murakami's brilliant and terrifying short story "Sleep" is a perfectly normal middle-class woman ...

When I was about nine years old, I went to live with my paternal grandmother for a year. Ostensibly the reason was that my parents were in t...

Picture a place you know well.  Your house, your apartment, a park, a church, a school.  You can probably imagine it, remember what it's...

One of the many amazing things about the brain is its ability to form connections between associated events. These links can have amazing ...

We're all so familiar with our own mental internal state that it's interesting to consider (1) that not everyone has the same sort o...

One of the enduring mysteries of neuropsychology is how memory is encoded. As I tell my introductory neuroscience students, think of the s...

One of the most ubiquitous, but mysterious, phenomena in neuroscience is déjà vu . We all get it from time to time -- the uncanny sense th...