Issue 6 Isolating the Brain from Sensory Input Our capacity to respond to, and communicate with, the outside world is contingent on the brain’s ability to both consciously and unconsciously process sensory information. While sensation may seem
Issue 6 Distorting the Mind's Perception of Time The way in which people perceive time depends on the situation they’re in. Imagine sitting in detention, staring at the clock—after sixty ticks of the second hand, the
Issue 6 Ethical History: A Contemporary Examination of the Little Albert Experiment In 1917, two curious researchers looking to examine the effects of fear conditioning began a study at Johns Hopkins University that would later become one of the most controversial experiments
Issue 6 Honeybee Cognition The term “worker bee” has become synonymous with a person who spends their days toiling away without thinking at all about the task at hand. However, this idea simply does
Issue 6 Sensory Substitution: The Brain's Ability to Adapt to Loss The adult brain weighs about three pounds and looks fairly unassuming. The organ’s seemingly uniform appearance does little to betray its underlying complexity. Over a period of several years,
Issue 6 A Childhood Lost: PTSD in Children of the Gaza Strip No child should grow up with the fear that the next breath they take in could be their last. Such extreme stress can affect the delicate developmental processes that take
Issue 6 CTE: The Unexpected Consequences of Recurrent Head Trauma Sports are expensive. From a new pair of cleats to multi-million dollar stadiums, people spend a lot of money on the games they love. Perhaps the biggest cost, however, is
Issue 6 Default Mode Network: Running on Default It seems intuitive that the brain is active when one is engaged in tasks like studying, and less active when taking a break. But what actually happens in the brain
Issue 6 Synthetic Telepathy: The Future of Brain Communication Telepathy is a concept usually associated with science fiction. The idea of reading an individual’s thoughts or interacting with them without words seems preposterous, and yet it captivates us
Issue 6 REM Sleep Behavior Disorder Everyone has vivid dreams from time to time, and in many of them, dreamers take actions that they wouldn’t necessarily want to replicate in real life. Thankfully, the brain
