What makes us human may come down to the way our neurons process information
Clara Lenherr explores the newly discovered human-specific characteristics of neurons and discusses how the uniqueness of human neurons brings into...
Tag: Cognition
Good news coffee drinkers: caffeine reduces the effect of drowsiness on cognitive performance
Alexandra Lesayova writes about new findings by the University of Western Australia and the University of Sydney on the effect of caffeine on cognition.
How memory science can help us this semester
Image credit: Jan Vašek, Pixabay. With teaching taking place almost exclusively online this semester (if not the whole academic year),...
What does dopamine actually have to do with happiness?
Image credit: Mev, via Pixabay In popular media, neurotransmitters are often viewed as on-off switches for basic human emotions, but...
The brain is overrated: a look at cognition in slime mould
Historical, scientific and philosophical adventure into the nature of consciousness seems to have, nine times out of ten, made the...
