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Exploring Coincidences: When We Find Meaning in Random Patterns

August 24, 2023

As a master’s student studying paranormal beliefs and parapsychology some 15 years ago, Christian Rominger stumbled upon a paper by Paola Bressan about “meaningful coincidences” and why they might happen.  “What really caught my attention about meaningful coincidences is that they’re different from other paranormal ideas and phenomena. They’re tied […]

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Using Virtual Reality to Explore the Neuroscience of Out-of-Body Experiences

August 3, 2023

When I was young, I remember first hearing the phrase “out-of-body experience” in reference to the Shirley Maclaine TV series “Out on a Limb.” At the time, I remember thinking of it as a mystical, mysterious state. Now, researchers know these experiences can happen through meditation, sensory deprivation, or when […]

What Do Math Skills Look Like in the Brain?

June 26, 2023

School’s out for summer – at least in most places in the Northern Hemisphere. That means most kids will not be giving a lot of thought to math for a couple months, but for some cognitive neuroscientists, math will continue to be an important area of study. Cognitive scientists have […]

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Trainees Learn About Navigating a New World with a New Mindset

May 16, 2023

CNS 2023 Guest post by Casey M. Imperio (CNSTA) As the world begins to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, many fields are beginning to restructure how they view work-life balance. That theme was prevalent for cognitive neuroscience trainees at the 2023 CNS conference in San Francisco. At the CNS Training […]

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Mentorship Enables a High School Senior to Lead Sleep Research Study

April 25, 2023

CNS 2023 When Norah Wolk reached out to scientists to see if she could discuss her research interests, she did not get many responses. A junior in high school at the time, “not many of them wanted to have a conversation with a high schooler,” she recalled. But it only […]

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CNS 2023: Day 4 Highlights

March 29, 2023

We closed out CNS 2023 in San Francisco in style with another excellent poster session, followed by a whopping 6 more symposia, including one on new studies in psychedelics and cognition, highlighted in a new press release. Check out some highlights in photos and tweets below: Poster Session F: Lots […]

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Psychedelics and Cognition: A New Look

March 28, 2023

Tuesday, March 28, 2023 – San Francisco – The synthesis of LSD and psilocybin in the early to mid-20th century sparked not only a new counterculture in the United States but also a new interest in brain science, specifically the role of neurotransmitters. Despite these discoveries, research on psychedelics went […]

CNS 2023: Day 3 Highlights

March 28, 2023

The third day of CNS 2023 in San Francisco included 4 symposia — on topics ranging from the a neurocomputational account of agency to how the brain continues to learn development, brain damage and competing demands — 2 poster sessions, the Young Investigator Award lectures by Anna Schapiro and Freek […]

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CNS 2023: Day 2 Highlights

March 26, 2023

The second day of CNS 2023 was packed with 6 stimulating symposia — on topics ranging from data science and electrophysiological studies of human memory to how the human brain forgets information and learning and generalization in people and machines — two poster sessions, a DEI workshop, and the George […]

Forget About It: Investigating How We Purge Thoughts from Our Minds

March 26, 2023

Sunday, March 26, 2023 – San Francisco – Forgetting is not always easy. If you have ever tried to erase that annoying earworm from your mind or stop thinking about whether you locked the door after leaving the house, you know how disruptive it can be to think about something […]

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