Picture an apple, any apple. As long as you don’t have aphantasia—the inability to visualize things in your mind’s eye—this suggestion triggers brain activity that’s surprisingly similar to what ...

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How do you tell if something is real or imaginary? We have now discovered a brain pathway that seems to help you decide - and the finding could improve treatments for hallucinations caused by ...

Human suffering is often not a result of actual events but of our thoughts about those events. We anticipate misfortunes, dwell on worst-case scenarios, and allow our fears to dictate our actions.

David Klinghoffer’s Op-Ed article was disturbing. The interrogators of the Inquisition also imagined supernatural influences and believed that torture would lead to finding out details about them. The ...