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People who doodle through meetings aren’t being rude or switching off
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Psychology says lonely people aren’t just short of company
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The baby who stares into your eyes isn’t just looking at you
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…
A hug from someone you love may do more than lift your mood
People who swear expensive wine tastes better aren’t just being snobs
Your cat almost certainly knows its name
Women who sniffed their partner’s worn T-shirt felt calmer and recovered faster from a stressful test
A newborn’s brain already knows its mother’s language
The friends you made between 16 and 25 feel irreplaceable, but not because they were better people
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Most of what we “know” about Phineas Gage was written after he died. The real story says more about how people recover from brain injuries.
Glial Cells
For much of the history of neuroscience, glial cells were treated like…