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The Brain as a Network

Here's an idea that sounds obvious but turns out to be wrong: that your brain is divided into sections with clear jobs, and your main task as a human being is to get the rational part to override the emotional part. This idea is deeply embedded in self-

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Emotions Are Constructions

Here's something that will probably feel counterintuitive: your brain doesn't detect emotions the way a smoke alarm detects smoke. There's no dedicated fear circuit waiting to fire, no anger module that activates when you're crossed. What's actually happening is considerably

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Allostasis

Most of us were taught, implicitly or otherwise, that the brain is primarily a thinking machine. It processes information, makes decisions, manages emotions, and coordinates behavior. That model is not wrong exactly, but it's incomplete in a way that matters. The past two decades of research in regulatory

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The Predictive Brain

How your brain actually works, and why it matters at work Most of what people believe about how the brain works is wrong. Not wrong in a minor, fixable way. Wrong at the foundation. The standard picture, brain receives information, processes it, and reacts, is a fiction. A convincing one,