Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth to their 5th birthday. Books are chosen by a panel of childhood literacy experts and purchased by the Dolly ...

Picture an apple, any apple. As long as you don’t have aphantasia—the inability to visualize things in your mind’s eye—this suggestion triggers brain activity that’s surprisingly similar to what ...

Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Recent neuroscience research shows that people have distinct patterns of brain connectivity and function when it comes to visual imagination. This ability runs ...

A.I. is fueling a “poverty of imagination.” Here’s how we can fix it. By Meher AhmadJessica Grose and Tressie McMillan Cottom Produced by Vishakha Darbha Artificial intelligence is already showing up ...

Sometimes I wish the human brain came with a user’s manual; it would be so handy. Take the relationship between thinking about something and actually doing it, for example. It’s not unusual for people ...

A grateful friend and colleague reflects on the towering Old Testament scholar. Even now I remember the simple cover of Walter Brueggemann’s most famous book: dark gray with the title The Prophetic ...

Imagination relies on an ability to differentiate between what's real and what's not — and now, scientists have uncovered potential brain mechanisms that make this distinction possible. These, they ...