Neuroscience
Elements
What Are Dreams For?
Converging lines of research suggest that we might be misunderstanding something we do every night of our lives.
Annals of Technology
The Neuroscience of Picking a Presidential Candidate
How new technology is allowing campaigns to tap into the subconscious thoughts and feelings of potential voters.
Under Review
Do We Have Minds of Our Own?
The strange, startling, and competing explanations for human—and possibly nonhuman—consciousness.
A Reporter at Large
Can a Machine Learn to Write for The New Yorker?
How predictive-text technology could transform the future of the written word.
Double Take
Sunday Reading: Mysteries of the Brain
From The New Yorker’s archive, pieces in which science and selfhood meet.
Elements
The Neurons That Tell Time
The discovery of brain structures that apparently mark time has raised a larger question: What is time, anyway?
A Reporter at Large
Degrees of Freedom
A scientist’s work linking minds and machines helps a paralyzed woman escape her body.
Cultural Comment
What We Know About Art and the Mind
There are many studies about how we process tonal music and figurative painting, but philosophers are just beginning to understand how our brains react to more abstract work.
Page-Turner
Awake Under Anesthesia
Personal History
A Neuroscientist’s Diary of a Concussion
Page-Turner
Inside the Minds of Very Good Dogs
Onward and Upward with the Sciences
Seeing with Your Tongue
Sensory-substitution devices help blind and deaf people, but that’s just the beginning.
Brave New World
For Better Vision, Living in the Dark
An experimental treatment for lazy eyes required living with a total stranger, in complete darkness, for ten days.
Annals of Technology
Could Brain Training Prevent Dementia?
Annals of Medicine
Bacteria on the Brain
Annals of Medicine
Helping Hand
Annals of Technology
The Strangers in Your Brain
A Critic at Large
The Terrible Teens
Annals of Technology