When Illusions Feel More Real Than Reality
A recent study reveals that even in healthy people illusory sensations can be mistaken for reality and that we shouldn’t trust everything we see.
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The Brain’s Google Maps
Neurons in the brain that track your location activate during imagination of navigation and actual movement
The neuroscience of (not) pulling the trigger
Yulia Revina discusses the neuroscience behind action inhibition and how ‘brain training’ can help.
Glasgow Science Festival Event ‘Vision, Perception & Illusion’
Are we just living in the Matrix? How can you be sure everything you perceive isn’t just a hallucination? Are you actually reading this sentence or merely think you are reading it?
“Ugh, Mum, just five more minutes!”
Teenagers are often viewed as lazy and moody, sleeping in late and being annoyed at their parents all the time. Adolescence is often a rebellious age, but could there be another factor at hand?...
Impulsive Animals
When trying to understand where a certain feature of the human brain has emerged from in evolutionary terms, we often turn to other species in the animal kingdom to investigate it further. In a...
Wellcome Image Awards 2014
Last Tuesday night theGIST was out on duty again, attending the 13th Wellcome Image Awards ceremony. Wellcome Images is an impressive collection of images from various scientific fields, such as medicine and social history,...
Neurosexism – using brain science to reinforce stereotypes about men and women?
Yulia Revina takes a critical look at a recent study reporting differences between male and female brains and whether this really means much.
