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Mind

Do Psychedelic Drug Therapies Actually Require Getting High?

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The Heady Neuroscience Behind 'Paying Attention'

People thinking about different concepts

How Our Brains Organize Abstract Scientific Concepts

Sense of self

Brain Scientists Probe the Mechanisms Behind Self-Identity

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Are People More Prone to Supernatural Thinking if They Believe in the Afterlife? 

Time bending

The Sciences

Why Do Humans Perceive Time The Way We Do? 

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Words Seem to Lose Their Meaning When We Repeat Them Over and Over. Why? 

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Why Does Pain Hurt? 

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Brains Might Sync As People Interact — and That Could Upend Consciousness Research

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Why Did We Evolve Brains in the First Place?

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Can We All Agree That the False Consensus Effect Is Fascinating — and Weird?

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迷幻药疗法真的需要“嗨”起来吗？

关于“专心致志”的精彩神经科学

我们的大脑如何组织抽象的科学概念

脑科学家探索自我认同背后的机制

相信来世的人更容易产生超自然想法吗？

人类为什么会以我们感知的方式来感知时间？

反复重复同一个词，它们似乎会失去意义。为什么？

疼痛为何会痛？

人际互动时大脑可能同步——这可能会颠覆意识研究

为什么我们会进化出大脑？

我们都同意“虚假共识效应”既迷人又古怪吗？

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