In a paper just published in Psychological Review, we argue that our imagination sculpts the images we see in our mind’s eye ...

Have you ever wondered how your brain creates thoughts or why something randomly popped into your head? It may seem like magic – but actually the brain is like a supercomputer inside your head that ...

How the human brain organizes its visual memories through precise neural timing has been discovered. Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC; CA, USA) have made a significant ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the big picture of artificial intelligence. The brain is unimaginably complex. Google and Harvard recently announced ...

Your brain is busy all day – planning, worrying, imagining, replaying conversations, solving problems. But when you’re not focusing on something specific, it still has a “go-to” mode it tends to ...

"If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't." — Emerson M. Pugh In a previous piece, I argued that introspection may be our most direct ...

All around us is a rich world for us to experience. Inside our minds, we have our own understanding of the world, ourselves, and everything in it. How does the brain do any of this? There’s all this ...

The appearance of predictive text in writing an email or text message has become, for better or worse, a regular feature of ...