We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them.

Many people prefer a view of human nature that includes a true side and a false side - in other words, humans have a single genuine aim and the rest is decoration, evasion, or cover-up. That's intuitive, but it's incomplete. A study of the brain necessitates a more nuanced view of human nature.

You are part of a complex social network that changes your biology with every interaction, and which your actions can change.

Visual cortex is fundamentally a machine whose job is to generate a model of the world.

Interestingly, schizophrenics can tickle themselves because of a problem with their timing that does not allow their motor actions and resulting sensations to be correctly sequenced.

At least 15 percent of human females possess a genetic mutation that gives them an extra (fourth) type of color photoreceptor - and this allows them to discriminate between colors that look identical to the majority of us with a mere three types of color photoreceptors.

Even though the outside world has not changed, your brain dynamically presents different interpretations.