The mind is but a mirror, Indian yogis used to say. Just watch it flow, as if you were a distant observer and you will calm down and not be enslaved by your thoughts. Easier said than done. But what ...

A team of researchers from Germany and Russia, including Vadim Nikulin from the Higher School of Economics, have demonstrated that long contraction of muscles in one hand increases involuntary ...

Mirror neurons, it seems, are of the utmost importance in human mind. If the same brain region that controls action also supports perception, then it explains, for example, why spectators at a boxing ...

In the mid-1990s, scientists at the University of Parma, in Italy, made a discovery so novel that it shifted the way psychologists discuss the brain. After researchers implanted electrodes into the ...