The sex stereotypes built into animal research.
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Neuroscience
Your expectations form the way you experience the world.
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Emotions don’t happen to you; your brain creates them.
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Our minds seem both physical and intangible. That paradox has gripped this neuroscientist since childhood.
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Forgetting and misremembering are the building blocks of creativity and imagination.
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Every brain’s white matter is different—and that might hold the key to better treatments.
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One question for Christopher Timmermann, a cognitive neuroscientist at Imperial College London.
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Why Black people are poorly represented in neuroimaging studies—and how science can do better.
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Researchers discover that to sharpen its control over precise maneuvers, the brain uses comparisons between control signals—not the signals themselves.
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