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Awareness

The Multilingual Brain: How Indian Children Juggle Multiple Languages and Scripts 

Have you come to read about India’s young multilingual talent, which could shock the world?  According to the India Book of Records, in 2020, Kiran Karthikeya was the youngest multilingual boy from Karnataka. At the age of two years, eleven

Self Help

The Restless Mind: Why the Brain Seeks Worry in the Absence of Threat

Understanding Worry: Definition and Context Worry: It’s something we all know, a fundamental human experience. Yet, when it becomes relentless, a constant focus on potential negative outcomes, it can spiral. While a touch of worry can certainly sharpen our awareness

Awareness

The Neural Basis of Empathy: How the Brain Processes the Emotions of Others

Empathy is defined as the ability to take on another person’s thoughts and perspectives, to understand, feel and share and respond to their experience. It is often confused with sympathy, which entails the feeling of being sorry for someone’s grief

Research

Zoning Out or Zoning In: How Aimless Wandering Trains the Brain

Today’s fast-paced life does not allow us to waste time by mindlessly drifting or walking around physically. But science in neuroscience suggests otherwise. A 2025 HHMI and Janelia Research Campus research discovered that when mice were allowed to explore an

Education Positive

The Adolescent Brain: How Frontal Lobe Development Shapes Thinking and Behavior

Adolescence is described as the brain’s second growth spurt. It is a time of development of the brain’s circuits and the frontal lobes, which are responsible for behavioural, cognitive, decision-making ability and voluntary movement. It has been proven that the

Life Style

Instant Shopping and Executive Function: How Convenience Affects Your Brain

Instant shopping, also formally known as ‘quick commerce’, has become the new norm of shopping. Online shopping or electronic shopping (e-shopping) has been developing since the 1990s (Chang et al., 2004), but instant shopping is a relatively newer concept that

Entertain

What Makes a Song Catchy? Psychology, Personality, and the Brain

The experience of having a song stuck in your head—known as an earworm—is one of the most common and curious quirks of the human mind. It affects between 88% and 98% of people. And what’s more fascinating? This phenomenon shows

Self Help

How the Brain Constructs Our Sense of Self 

What does it mean to be “you”? Is it the body you inhabit, the voice in your head, your memories or something deeper, more elusive? The sense of self, while feeling natural and seamless, is actually the product of an

Health

Chocolate: Your Brain’s Cheat Code for Instant Mood Repair 

That unexpected craving for chocolate when you’re feeling anxious, tired, or low? It’s supported by interesting brain science, so it’s not just in your head—in fact, it is! Chocolate contains a unique blend of natural materials that interact with the

Self Help

Multitasking All Day? Here’s How It Impacts Your Brain

Ever find yourself answering emails during a Zoom call, texting a buddy, and scrolling Instagram between? You’re not alone. Multitasking is the way we feel efficient, like we’re conquering the world one notification at a time. But if you ever