Spiegeloog 444: Salience

Neuroscience tells us that psychedelics increase brain entropy, breaking apart rigid cognitive patterns and making room for new ones. By relaxing the brain’s filters, they…

TikTok and Reels or Youtube Shorts are full of meaningless content paired with news of disasters happening all over the world, feeding us an unbearable…

A small lab in Utrecht University tackles the big challenge: defining what it means when we “connect” with others, by measuring neural signatures of social…

 When I told my father I wanted to pursue psychology, he told me that mental health issues were the “problems of the urbanized privileged.” Of…

In a controlled environment, it is not perfection that captures our attention, but disruption. A stage light falling from the sky in The Truman Show,…

"I saw One Direction's first appearance on X Factor live." "I already started crocheting before everybody was creating stuff with rubber bands." “It was so…

In a time when so many agents are vying for our attention, in a time of bigger, brighter, more, standing out can feel impossible.