Old bones from China kept changing names for nearly 50 years, until a tiny protein clue tied them to the Denisovans, a lost people we can now almost picture. #evolution dailyneuron.com/denisovan-fo…

When an app that learns your habits becomes part of how you think, it can be hard to tell where its nudges end and your choices begin. #philosophy dailyneuron.com/extended-min…

Brain waves weaken on LSD, but the usual way of measuring them can hide a second change that may set this drug apart from other psychedelics. #neuroscience #consciousness dailyneuron.com/lsd-alpha-be…

Your feeling of being conscious may come from your brain's simple models of itself, and a machine could build its own. #consciousness #cogsci dailyneuron.com/consciousnes…

Synesthesia, seeing letters in their own colors, draws on a sense-mixing talent your brain already has, and five tests decide who crosses the line. #neuroscience #cogsci dailyneuron.com/synesthesia-…

Your conscious choices may change your brain, and one theory says the work happens in the fatty skin of a single brain cell. #consciousness #neuroscience dailyneuron.com/consciousnes…

Brain scans can find a hidden mind in a patient who can't move. What they can't do is tell a family what to do next, and that gap is where the real decision lives. #neuroscience #consciousness dailyneuron.com/brain-scans-…

Frozen human cells rode balloons into the stratosphere, and back in the lab their broken DNA kept getting worse for a whole day. #physics #space dailyneuron.com/cosmic-radia…

Some people can't picture anything in their heads, and studying their brains is overturning a popular theory of how imagination works. #consciousness #neuroscience dailyneuron.com/aphantasia-m…

Hunger says go, fear says stay, and something in you has to break the tie. One theory argues that tiebreaker is where feeling itself comes from. #consciousness #neuroscience dailyneuron.com/consciousnes…

A machine can guess your feelings from your search history, but it can't hold the one piece of evidence that would let it tell you what you think. #philosophy dailyneuron.com/ai-epistemic…

The sounds you make seem quieter than everyone else's. The usual answer is that your brain mutes them. The real answer is odder, and it works without your hands. #cogsci dailyneuron.com/self-made-so…

Some conspiracy theories survive every fact thrown at them, and the reason may be that giving them up simply costs the body too much. #cogsci dailyneuron.com/conspiracy-t…

If your feelings can't push a single atom, evolution had no reason to build them. One neuroscientist says only a quantum brain escapes that trap. #neuroscience dailyneuron.com/quantum-cons…

Silence one small clump of thalamus and a rat's brain keeps its map of the maze but loses track of which errand it's running. #neuroscience dailyneuron.com/hippocampus-…

Fear feels like it tells you something is wrong, but two philosophers argue you already knew, and the fear is only your answer to it. #philosophy dailyneuron.com/reactive-the…

Generative AI is a third kind of knowledge, moving through a space of meanings rather than following rules or copying. Hallucinations and new ideas come from the same capacity, so removing one would remove the other. dailyneuron.com/ai-hallucina…

Monkeys and lemurs share a brain shape that looks inherited, but 53 million years of fossil skulls say they built it separately. #evolution dailyneuron.com/primate-brai…

In human, monkey, and mouse brains, a quarter to two-fifths of connections work by suppressing other regions. These long-range links finish forming around age twenty, and their breakdown may drive later cognitive decline. #neuroscience dailyneuron.com/competitive-…

Cannibalism recurred in 3 caves near Granada across roughly 15 centuries, in at least 3 separate Neolithic episodes. Bones can prove human bodies were processed, yet they cannot reveal whether the act meant warfare, mourning, or something else. #evolution dailyneuron.com/neolithic-ca…