What secrets does the human brain hide? Latest discoveries in neuroscience & cognitive science and unbelievable facts about the human brain
Some questions have puzzled humans for centuries, if not for millennia. It is natural for human beings to question their own existence and ponder about the causes of all happenings. Here Are Top 5 Puzzling Questions about Human Existence 1. How did life originate? For 80 years now, we have…
During sleep, bad memories become less clear, claim U.S. researchers. A group of researchers at Northwestern University in Chicago developed a technique that makes it possible to change human memories during sleep. The study was published in the journal Nature Neuroscience. Previously, many experiments on animals and observations of…
Beethoven once said, “Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.” As it turns out, music enhances learning, too. According to a College Entrance Exam Board Service study, students involved in musical extracurricular activities scored 51 points higher on the verbal portion of the SAT exams and 39…
Deja vu is one of the little-known and mysterious phenomena of our psyche. It has happened to many people to feel like a new situation in their life has already been experienced before in all the details. But how and when? This phenomenon is called déjà vu, which means ‘already…
Is it possible to adapt to a world of darkness and navigate in it better than bats in a dark cave, using echolocation to explore the world? It turns out that it is. Blind people are able to use echolocation to "see" their environment, but even the sighted can learn…
Over the last decade, many people became increasingly interested in brain hemispheres and their functions, as well as their effects on the process of learning. This interest has to do with the fact that traditional teaching models are based on the functioning of the left hemisphere i.e. the development of…
There is a branch of science called oneirology which studies dreams. This discipline combines features of neuroscience, psychology, and even literature but does not provide the answer to the important question of why people dream. There is no clear answer to this puzzle yet, but there are some interesting hypotheses,…
Everyone knows the tricks our memory plays on us sometimes. Have you ever experienced the feeling when you seem to remember images, words, and events that, in fact, were nothing but a figment of your imagination and never took place in reality? These are false memories, and we are all…