The essence of religion was once widely thought to be a unique form of experience that
could not be explained in neurological, psychological, or sociological terms. In recent …

Although the faculty of memory holds information about the past, it is mostly about the
present and the future, because it permits adaptive responses to ongoing events as well as …

The main objective of this article is to capitalise on many years of research, and of practice,
relating to the use of introspection in a research context, and thus to provide an initial outline …

There is no satisfactory account for the general phenomenon of confabulation, for the
following reasons:(1) confabulation occurs in a number of pathological and non-pathological …

Educational Neuroscience is an exciting and timely new discipline. It brings together
individuals from diverse backgrounds, including cognitive brain scientists, learning …

This chapter offers a synoptic overview of situated work on memory and remembering,
skating fast and light over vast and disparate literatures to sketch a positive synthesis of the …

Brain research is opening up our understanding of not only what role the different areas of
our brain play in making decisions or in recognizing the faces of those we love, but even in …

Paths to Peace begins by developing a theory about the domestic obstacles to making
peace and the role played by shifts in states' governing coalitions in overcoming these …

What makes a person Jewish? Why do some people feel they have physically inherited the
memories of their ancestors? Is there any way to think about race without reducing it to …

The commentaries raise a host of challenging issues and reflect a broad range of views.
Some commentators doubt that there is any convincing evidence for adaptive misbelief, and …