Inner vision
The latest issue of Scientific American Mind, INNER VISION, is now available at Scientific American Digital. It includes some free, featured articles. Scientific American SciAm Mind Inner vision Features in this issue include… Cover Story: Picture This – How the brain creates images in our minds may well determine how we think. Do Animals Have […]
The latest issue of Scientific American Mind, INNER VISION, is now available at Scientific American Digital. It includes some free, featured articles.
Inner vision
Features in this issue include…
Cover Story: Picture This – How the brain creates images in our minds may well determine how we think.
Do Animals Have Feelings? – Animal lovers insist their fellow creatures experience joy, sympathy, fear and grief, but scientifically, it is hard to say.
Combating Stress in Iraq – Psychologists on the battlefield are helping soldiers stay mentally fit during long and frightful tours of duty.
Science Probes Spirituality – Discovering how meditation expels negativity could lead to drugs that bring us peace.
Mastery of Emotions – Joseph E. LeDoux discovered how fear arises. Now he is showing that the biology of emotions is what gives life meaning.
Do Gays Have a Choice? – Science offers a clear and surprising answer to a controversial question.
Train Your Brain – Mental exercises with neurofeedback may ease symptoms of attention-deficit disorder, epilepsy and depression-and even boost cognition in healthy brains.
Fighting Parkinson’s – The disease remains incurable, but research advances point to better treatments for this increasingly common disorder.
Mindful of Symbols – Before they learn that one item can represent another, young children conflate real objects and their symbols. The errors show how difficult it is to start thinking symbolically.
One Person, One Neuron? – Nerve cells devoted exclusively to recognizing Halle Berry or Bill Clinton? Absurd. That’s what most neuroscientists thought, until recently.
