Anil K Seth is professor of cognitive and computational neuroscience at the University of Sussex, where he is director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science. He is also editor-in-chief of ...

Understanding the intuitive power of the word ‘natural’ could help inform choices about what to eat or what to do when ill ...

Being ghosted can feel shocking. But we need to get used to it because there’s no other way to cope with our world ...

What were you thinking about just now? Maybe you were caught in the midst of a continuous stream of thoughts. That is how we often talk about our waking lives – and it’s the way our conscious minds ...

Destructive and beautiful all at once – an artist on the spectrum captures the ‘souls’ of machines from an Alaskan cabin ...

Caught between Czech culture and Vietnamese heritage, an animator reflects on growing up as a stranger in her own home ...

The notion that people have their own ‘learning styles’ is intuitive for many, and it is an idea that has taken hold among educators. In particular, the popular ‘VARK’ model proposes four distinct ...

In Oasis, the Canadian director Justine Martin captures the evolving brotherhood of teenaged twins Rémi and Raphaël during aimless summer days spent under the stars, in a tent, on wheels in a ...

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Many of us crave trivial details while ignoring much of the world around us. Research helps explain this selective curiosity We are curious creatures. Not (just) strange, but eager for knowledge. We ...

At the brain level, wanting and liking are distinct phenomena. In this excerpt from a lecture at HowTheLightGetsIn festival, Barry C Smith, the director of the Institute of Philosophy at the ...

Can ‘visualising’ successes really lead to better outcomes? In this short from BBC Ideas, Radha Modgil, a doctor and presenter, Ashley Pople, an economist at the University of Oxford, and Jennifer ...