Mind · Memory
Why Does Time Feel Faster as We Age?
Childhood summers seemed endless. Adult years vanish. The clock hasn't changed — but the way the brain records and remembers time has.
How experience is created.
Mind
Neuroscience, perception, memory, dreams, emotion, behaviour and consciousness: how a brain turns signals into a world.
Mind · PerceptionThe World You See Is Built Inside Your HeadSomething surprising happens between light reaching your eyes and the world appearing in consciousness.
Mind · Psychology
Why Can We Hear Our Own Thoughts?
The voice in your head makes no sound at all. So why does thinking so often feel like listening to someone speak — and why doesn't everyone hear it?
Mind · Brain
Does Your Brain Experience the Present Slightly After It Happens?
Signals take time to travel and to be processed. The "now" you feel may be a careful edit of the recent past, smoothed over with a prediction of the future.
Mind · Brain
Where Does Pain Actually Exist?
It feels as if pain is in the hand you burned. But some people feel pain in limbs they no longer have — and that changes what pain turns out to be.
Mind · Perception
Can Another Animal Experience a Colour We Cannot Imagine?
Many birds see ultraviolet. Bees see patterns on flowers invisible to us. Their worlds contain colours that human minds may never be able to picture.