The Neurocritic

from Terence McKenna - Ayahuasca Stories What is a hallucination? The question seems simple enough. “A hallucination is a perception...

What Color is Monday? This video on synesthesia is one of the Top Ten videos in the Society for Neuroscience Brain Awareness Video Contes...

Still image from Kaleidoscopes for Binocular Rivalry How well do we know our own inner lives? Self-report measures are a staple of ps...

Qualia are private. We don’t know how another person perceives the outside world: the color of the ocean, the sound of the waves, the sm...

Eve is plagued by a waking nightmare. ‘I do not exist. All you see is a shell with no being inside, a mask covering nothingness. I am ...

Goats Galore (May 2019) If you live in a drought-ridden, wildfire-prone area on the West Coast, you may see herds of goats chomping o...