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Consciousness lives at the back of the brain, says one leading theory, or in a burst of prefrontal ignition at the…
Backers of rival theories of consciousness agreed in advance how to be proven wrong. A test on 256 people found neither theory held in…
Brenda Milner had H.M. trace a five-pointed star while seeing only his hand and the star in a mirror
A man who could not remember his own day still got better at tracing a star seen only in a mirror, and kept the…
John O'Keefe found cells in a rat's hippocampus in 1971 that fired whenever it was at one place in a room while…
We carry something like a GPS in the brain, and some people seem to have more of it working for them. It started with…
In the 1920s, a Moscow reporter named Solomon Shereshevsky was sent to a psychologist because he never took notes…
A Moscow reporter who never took notes was sent to a psychology lab in the 1920s, and Alexander Luria could not find the edge…
You probably can't remember anything before age 3, but when Yale researchers scanned 26 babies looking at…
Babies supposedly don't remember anything, which is why the early years get written off. A Yale fMRI study of 26 awake infants found hippocampal…