Ancient navigators crossed oceans without maps by turning the sky, sea, and wildlife into a mental map,...
Ancient calendars changed the way humans think about time by turning a flowing, hard-to-grasp experience into counted,...
Tabletop role-playing games plausibly train social cognition and planning because every session asks players to imagine other...
Hidden compartments delight the brain because they combine three things it craves: a small mystery, a hands-on...
Optical illusions expose the brain’s shortcuts because they are cases where a usually helpful guess goes wrong....
It shows promise, though no study has tested test anxiety itself. In trials of healthy and older...
Phantom limbs reveal that your sense of your body lives in the brain, not in the body...
Rumors and cryptid legends spread through human memory because every retelling is a reconstruction, and reconstructions drift...
Trickster myths may train the brain to think flexibly because they show rules being bent, broken, and...
People who remember dreams in cinematic detail often have brains that wake briefly during sleep, which gives...