Attention, the ability to focus on a part of the sensory information available to us, involves filtering and selecting specific sensory input from the environment. For example, we can focus our gaze ...

Descartes wrestled with a problem that has become central to the philosophy of mind, namely the interaction between consciousness and the physical brain. This is called the mind-body problem. In the ...

For more than a decade, I have hosted an hour-long cable TV show on MSNBC. When I got my own show, I imagined it as something akin to the experience of first-time car ownership. I could drive wherever ...

Hayes talks about his own experience of becoming famous enough to be recognized and becoming a little addicted to that attention. He explains how companies have learned to manipulate natural ...