You look up from your phone screen and suddenly realize you weren't thinking about anything. It's not a lapse in memory or a daydream; it's literally a moment when you're not thinking of anything at ...

For many of us, books are the moments where that shift happens – a sentence that lingers, an argument that unsettles, a story ...

What is intelligence? We can all agree that humans are intelligent and many of us would likely extend that definition to the most mentally adept creatures of the animal kingdom—from dolphins to ...

This semester, I am teaching a graduate class in cognitive psychology, and we are beginning our journey with E. Bruce Goldstein’s The Mind: Consciousness, Prediction, and the Brain. The book is an ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...