The brain runs its show incognito.

Brains are like representative democracies. They are built of multiple, overlapping experts who weigh in and compete over different choices.

Odor carries a great deal of information, including information about a potential mate's age, sex, fertility, identity, emotions, and health.

As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

All life is no more than a match struck in the dark and blown out again.

The first thing we learn from studying our own circuitry is a simple lesson: most of what we do and think and feel is not under our conscious control.

It turns out your conscious mind - the part you think of as you - is really the smallest part of what’s happening in your brain, and usually the last one in line to find out any information.