Articles tagged as Neuroscience | Smithsonian Magazine

Beauty comes in many different guises, including numbers and symbols

February 13, 2014

Perhaps eventually we’ll respond to emoji as we would to real dogs, cats and night skies

February 12, 2014

THC appears to increase our sensitivity to scents and flavors by using naturally occurring neural networks to convince the brain that it's starving

February 9, 2014

A recent study found dream descriptions could be used ot distinguish between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

February 5, 2014

Even children who live in a culture with no beliefs about existence before birth have a concept of "pre-life"

January 29, 2014

But is this a problem with our noses, or with English?

January 28, 2014

Patient H.M.'s brain has been sliced and digitized, leading to new insights for scientists

January 28, 2014

When you chew loudly, cough or clip your nails, you might be causing another person to bubble with rage

January 22, 2014

The drug has allowed mice to replace old anxiety-filled memories with new, harmless ones

January 20, 2014

One neuroscientist is peering into the canine brain, and says he's found evidence that dogs may feel love

November 1, 2013

Fifty years ago, Eugene Aserinksy discovered rapid eye movement and changed the way we think about sleep and dreaming

Chip Brown

October 2003

The much-maligned theory of phrenology gets a tip of the hat from modern neuroscience

October 1997