The Flexible Brain: Why Risk and Impulse Are Not “One-Size-Fits-All”
Why do some individuals struggle with addiction or impulsivity while others do not? Why...
Tag: Neuroanthropology
An Auditory Umbilical Cord: How a Mother’s Voice Builds a Baby’s Brain
The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is a world of beeps, hums, and sterile...
You Don’t See With Your Eyes: Dale Purves and the Empirical Theory of Perception
We live with an intuitive and powerful conviction: that our eyes act like cameras,...
The Decisive Mind: Why Your Intention to Remember Trumps Emotion and Sleep
We all share a common understanding of how memory works. We believe that powerful,...
The Womb as the First Classroom: How Babies’ Brains Are Primed for Language Before Birth
For centuries, philosophers and scientists have debated whether the newborn mind is a “blank...
Born to Connect: A Newborn’s Brain Holds Clues to Autism and Our Social Selves
When a newborn baby’s eyes lock onto a human face, it feels like a...