Knotted-string records like the Inca khipu, or quipu, challenge our ideas of memory because they stored information...
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...
It shows promise for sleep, but not yet for ADHD symptoms. In a six-week trial, boys with...
Sleep paralysis likely explains many folklore demons. The brain wakes while the muscle shutdown of REM sleep...