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John Kounios is a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Drexel University. He is co-author of The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain (Random House, 2015) and ...

A decade ago this past June, my sister died at the National Institutes of Health. I still have faith in them, and I hope that ...

A newly identified part of a brain circuit mixes sensory information, memories, and emotions to tell whether things are familiar or new, and important or just “background noise.” ...

In the parable of the blind men and the elephant, several blind men each describe a different part of an elephant they are ...

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