Neurosity

We're Going to Do Something Unusual Here We're going to write an honest comparison of our own product against the competition. And by honest, I mean actually honest. Not the kind of "honest" where a company lists a bunch of alternatives and then spends ev

A Device That Reads Your Mind (Sort Of) Let's get the obvious thing out of the way. A device that reads your brainwaves sounds like something from a movie where someone eventually gets telekinesis and the government gets involved. But here's what's actual

Two Philosophies, Two Very Different Buyers There's a moment in every curious person's life when they realize they want to read brain signals. Maybe they watched a demo of someone controlling a cursor with their thoughts. Maybe they read a paper on neurof

Two Philosophies, Two Very Different Buyers There's a moment in every curious person's life when they realize they want to read brain signals. Maybe they watched a friend demo a neurofeedback app. Maybe they read a study on meditation and alpha rhythms. M

Two Philosophies, Two Very Different Buyers There's a moment in every curious person's life when they realize they want to read brain signals. Maybe they watched a friend demo a neurofeedback app. Maybe they read a study on attention and frontal theta. Ma

The Sensory System That's Older Than Hearing, Sight, or Smell There's a biological sensor in your head right now that's been tracking your every movement since before you were born. It was fully functional in the womb, months before your eyes could see or

The 90-Minute Secret Hidden Inside Every Night of Sleep You probably already know, even if you don't know the details, that sleep happens in cycles. You fall asleep, drift into deeper stages, dream for a while, come close to the surface, then sink back do

The Nerve That Connects Your Body to Your Brain Put your fingers on the side of your neck, just below your jaw. Feel your pulse. Now take a slow, deep breath in. Hold it. Exhale slowly. If you paid close attention, you might have noticed something subtle.

You're Not as Fair as You Think You Are In 2003, a pair of researchers at the University of Chicago decided to study something that most people would rather not think about. Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan created 5,000 fictitious resumes. They

Your Brain Runs Better on Empty (And Evolution Explains Why) Here's a question that should bother you: if food is fuel for the brain, why does the brain seem to work so well when there's no food around? Most people who practice intermittent fasting report