neuroscience

A young man with a blue shirt and orange hair stares, nay, is transfixed by smartphone. His eyes swirl in a whirling pool of red and yellow, drool crawling down his chin as the phone's light shines brightly in his face, contrasting against the dark purple background.

Doom-Scrolling Dooms Media as We Know it

Cerasela Hanseter, University of California, Berkeley

Doom-scrolling is doing more than just ruining our attention spans: it is transforming news and media as an enterprise.…

April 21, 2024

A smorgasbord of photos cut and scattered across the frame bedeck a vibe of chaos. Wads of bills fly over mahjong tablets and a surfer, sushi intersects with face-adorned sticky notes and a young woman enjoying books in the grass, who in turn is paired with a curly-furred dog sitting above a paint supplies and a novel held wide open, not to mention several others. White lines are drawn in bold shading around the images, emphasizing specific effects and emotions.

How Vision Boards are Redefining Online Goal Setting

Allegra Walker, University at Albany - SUNY

Why are vision boards so popular on social media? What makes them so effective for personal development and progress?…

February 20, 2024

ZeFrank1: A YouTuber Who Effortlessly Mixes Comedy With Science

Isabella Savides, University of Pretoria

Over the past two decades, Hosea 'Ze' Frank has made a name for himself on YouTube through his cerebral yet compelling sense of humor.…

November 12, 2021

To represent an earworm, a young person is pictured listening to music on an old cassette player.

The Earworm, Stimulation and the Reason Behind the Music in Our Heads

Mason Cannon, Columbia University

Research behind this auditory phenomenon has revealed that it is more common than you may think — though we still don't fully understand why it occurs.…

August 1, 2021

Why Everyone Needs to Listen to Sam Harris

Miranda Maples, University of Tennessee

Sam Harris is a neuroscientist, an author, a philosopher and a Brazilian jiu-jitsu participant, and he has a lot to say about the modern world.…

March 6, 2018

This Neuroscience Major Is Helping Change How Children on the Autism Spectrum Are Taught

Lexi Lieberman, University of Pennsylvania

Nia-Renee Cooper was inspired by her grandfather’s fight with dementia to study neuropharmacology and behavioral intervention.…

September 18, 2017

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