How does the brain take visual information and process it so that we can understand what we’re seeing? Current research suggests there are two key pathways, the ventral pathway for object recognition, and the dorsal pathway, for object-motion orientation.

The idea that either sex is smarter than the other has been the subject of scientific and public controversy, historically being used to affirm negative gender stereotypes. But is there really any evidence towards a difference? And if so, why?

Lashley’s principle of mass action, famously derived from lesion experiments on rats, argues that memory is stored in a distributed network across the cortex. This theory faces a lot of criticisms, but offers some important ideas about the distributed and flexible nature of the neurobiological substrates of memory.

Attributional biases serve important and interesting roles in maintaining our psychological wellbeing. This seems strange given that they are biases, and as such, tend to deviate from pure logical interpretation.

Twin studies offer important methods of psychological analysis. Given that they share either 50% or 100% of DNA, variances in manifestations of particular traits allow for a useful assessment of how environment shapes mental illness.

When a child’s brain is developing, what plays a greater role, the environment, or the child themself? This is the classic nature vs. nurture debate, this time applied to developmental cognition.