From corridors to cognition: How the brain builds mental maps of the world
Our brains build maps of the environment that help us understand the world around us, allowing us to think, recall, and plan. These maps not only help us to, say, find our room on the correct floor of ...
How the brain can miraculously switch off pain
In the second world war, the physician Henry Beecher observed that some of his soldier patients, despite being injured on the ...