Thursday, March 12, 2026

The Groundless Myth of Superagers Growing More Brain Cells

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 Never forget there's a "profess" in the word "professor."  And "profess" is defined as "to  affirm o...
Sunday, March 8, 2026

One Year Later, the Blog of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Still Sounds Evidence-Poor

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 On March 7, 2025 I posted on this blog a post entitled " Examining the Evidence-Poor Blog Archive of the Cognitive Neuroscience Societ...
Thursday, March 5, 2026

Neuroscientists Have No Brain-Based Explanation for Either Remembering or Forgetting

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Decades ago I regarded Time Magazine as being the epitome of respectable journalism. I remembered there was a 48-story skyscraper in New Yor...
Sunday, March 1, 2026

Don't Think It's a Theory of Brain Memory, When It's Just Vacuous Hand-Waving

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 A very important skill in life is the ability to distinguish vacuous hand-waving when it happens. Vacuous hand-waving is when someone tries...
Wednesday, February 25, 2026

The "Speed Bump" Nerve Signal Bottlenecks That Make Up 90% of Your Brain Tissue

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  Scientists have long advanced the claim that the human brain is the storage place for memories and the source of human thinking. But such ...
Friday, February 20, 2026

Contrary to "Brains Make Minds" Claims, Brains Are Not Much More Electrically Active When You Are Awake

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Those who claim that the brain makes the mind keep trying to push the silly idea that you are just a bunch of neural signals passing around ...