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Brain scans can reveal what song you’re listening to April 1, 2023

Neural decoding is a subfield of neuroscience that uses machine learning algorithms to infer or reconstruct mental states or sensory information from brain activity recorded by various neuroimaging methods. Most decoding studies employ functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which records changes in cerebral blood flow as a proxy for brain activity. In the past decade, […]

Billie Eilish, Vincent van Gogh, and the trippy science of synesthesia March 31, 2023

Some years ago, I was introduced to a fellow student on my grad course. She pondered my name for a moment before saying, “Ashley… Oh, that tastes of cabbage.” Putting aside what felt a little like a swipe, I quickly learned that Samara was one of those rare people who live with the extraordinary condition […]

How saying “me” or “we” changes your psychological response — and the response of other people March 31, 2023

What comes to mind when you think about three little words: I, you, and we? Likely you don’t give them any thought at all — or if you do, you might assume they are simply a way to mark who is speaking at any given moment. But we have discovered that these “little words” can […]

The psychedelic DMT causes the brain to become hyperconnected, scans reveal March 31, 2023

N,N-dimethyltryptamine, more commonly known as DMT, is one of the most powerful psychedelics known to humankind. “The DMT experience is one in which people report going into a different dimension, an alternate reality that feels convincingly real, even more real than this everyday reality. One that has a spiritual significance,” Christopher Timmermann, a cognitive neuroscientist […]

The world’s most successful pirate was a Chinese woman March 31, 2023

At the dawn of the 19th century, a former prostitute from a floating brothel in the city of Canton was wed to Cheng I, a fearsome pirate who operated in the South China Sea in the Qing dynasty. One of the names under which we now know her, Ching Shih, simply means “Cheng’s widow,” but the […]

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