Let's consider the question, "What is the mind, and how does it fit into the material world?" For most people, the mind is a source inside of us that empowers us to be aware, to understand, to think, ...

This semester, I am teaching a graduate class in cognitive psychology, and we are beginning our journey with E. Bruce Goldstein’s The Mind: Consciousness, Prediction, and the Brain. The book is an ...

Since the completion of the Human Genome Project a decade ago, much excitement has swirled around the possibility that determining a person’s genetic makeup could help doctors personalize the ...

The world of brain research has a secret flaw. For decades, studies into how the mind works have been carried out primarily by English-speaking scientists on English-speaking participants. Yet their ...

A group of kids gather around a tank and watch as a cockroach’s leg gets cut off inside. They scream, “he’s gonna die!” But once the leg is attached to electrodes and stimulated with the low frequency ...

Beginning in the 1980s, as the personal computer became ubiquitous, a series of international conferences brought prominent scholars together to consider the impact on the humanities. In 1991, ...

Imagine a shiny new BMW sitting in your driveway. Now, imagine a shiny new Hyundai. Now, come up with one reason why you should drive that BMW. How about ten reasons? What about the Hyundai? A little ...

Our hearts and souls can’t fulfill the Great Commandment without our minds. Jesus was once asked to identify the greatest and most important thing for followers of God to do (Matt. 22:36–37). His ...