April/May 2008
Scientific American Mind

Cover; April/May 2008; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

From the Editor; April/May 2008; by Mariette DiChristina; 1 Page(s)

Great Expectations

Table of Contents; April/May 2008; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

Letters; April/May 2008; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

Head Lines; April/May 2008; by Katherine Leitzell, Sara Goudarzi, Emily Anthes, Christopher Intagliata, Rachel Dvoskin, Kurt Kleiner, Graciela Flores, Sandy Fritz, Erica Westly, Nicole Branan, Peter Sergo, Aimee Cunningham, Corey Binns, Karen A. Frenkel; 9 Page(s)

Just Smile; One Hemisphere, Two Hands; Brain Injury's Toll; Competing Clocks; Mother's Milk; In Your Face; Paying for Pleasure; Sounding Out Dyslexia; A Magnetic Boost; Wait, Don't Tell Me&; The Eyes Get It; Comedy and Culture; Baby in the Brain; Sweeter Than Cocaine; A Brighter Tune; Even Better than a Personal Best

Brain Cells into Thin Air; April/May 2008; by R. Douglas Fields; 2 Page(s)

The neural cost of high-altitude mountaineering

Illusions: Transparently Obvious; April/May 2008; by Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Diane Rogers-Ramachandran; 3 Page(s)

How the brain sees through the perceptual hurdles of tinted glass, shadows and all things transparent

Calendar; April/May 2008; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Exhibitions, conferences, movies and more

The Social Psychology of Success; April/May 2008; by S. Alexander Haslam, Jessica Salvatore, Thomas Kessler and Stephen D. Reicher; 8 Page(s)

People's performance is shaped by awareness of stereotypes. How can we break free from the expectations of others?

Buried Prejudice; April/May 2008; by Siri Carpenter; 8 Page(s)

Deep within our subconscious, all of us harbor biases that we consciously abhor. And the worst part is: we act on them

Infected with Insanity; April/May 2008; by Melinda Wenner; 8 Page(s)

The evidence is mounting: mental illness might be caused by microbes

Subconscious Sight; April/May 2008; by Susana Martinez-Conde; 6 Page(s)

People with "blindsight" can correctly deduce the visual features of objects they cannot see. Such visual intuition can even exceed what is possible with normal vision

New Weapons against Cocaine Addiction; April/May 2008; by Peter Sergo; 4 Page(s)

Drug therapies show promise in the battle against addictive stimulants

A Face in the Crowd; April/May 2008; by Nina Bublitz; 8 Page(s)

Is our remarkable ability to recognize human faces hardwired in the brain or a result of lots of practice?

The Orgasmic Mind; April/May 2008; by Martin Portner; 6 Page(s)

Achieving sexual climax requires a complex conspiracy of sensory and psychological signals--and the eventual silencing of critical brain areas

Imagined Ugliness; April/May 2008; by Susanne Rytina; 6 Page(s)

Some people are convinced that they are hideously deformed because of an obscure or nonexistent physical "flaw"

Facts and Fictions in Mental Health; April/May 2008; by Scott O. Lilienfeld And Hal Arkowitz; 2 Page(s)

Once a sex offender, always a sex offender?

We're Only Human; April/May 2008; by Wray Herbert; 2 Page(s)

The psychological rules of bartering: why things cost $19.95

Mind Reviews; April/May 2008; by Nicole Branan, Karen Schrock, Richard Lipkin, Melinda Wenner, Corey Binns; 2 Page(s)

Certainty's uncertainties, mind manuals, and the long and short of psych radio

Ask the Brains; April/May 2008; by Edvard I. Moser, Michael V. Vitiello; 1 Page(s)

Could déjà vu be explained by grid cells? Why do older adults wake up so early?

Head Games; April/May 2008; by American Mensa; 1 Page(s)

Match wits with the Mensa puzzler