Behaviour

We all possess psychopathic tendencies, moreover, Kevin Dutton argues, our society as a whole is more psychopathic than ever: after all, psychopaths tend to be fearless, confide

Taalwetenschapper Lourens de Vries laat zien hoe Zuid Nieuw Guinea onze kijk op taal, mens en identiteit op zijn kop zet.

Photographer Jimmy Nelson went on a journey to create an ambitious aesthetic photographic document of the last indigenous people in the world, before they pass away.

Datum: Woensdag 5 maart 2014

De kans dat we Alzheimer op termijn kunnen voorkomen neemt toe. Maar de kern van het ziekteproces begrijpen we nog steeds niet.

Is it possible to predict what a person is thinking of - or even what they are planning to do - based alone on their current brain activity?

Mirror neurons have been considered one of the most important discoveries of modern neuroscience.

People have an interesting way of reasoning. It seems quite logical to us, but it has proven difficult to implement this in the ultimate logical system, the computer.

Design of autonomous robots can strongly benefit from knowledge of biology and self-organization.

Professor Chris Eliasmith is the creator of SPAUN, a brain simulation that mimics our own brain structure and one of the most advanced models ever created by scientists to under