November/December 2011
Scientific American Mind

Cover; November/December 2011; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Table of Contents; November/December 2011; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

From the Editor; November/December 2011; by Sandra Upson; 1 Page(s)

Sparks in Your Sleep

Letters; November/December 2011; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

Letters to the Editor about the July/August 2011 issue of Scientific American Mind

Head Lines; November/December 2011; by Tori Rodriguez, Michele Solis, Michele Solis, Carrie Arnold, Allison Bond, Joe Kloc, Lauren F. Friedman, Morgan E. Peck, Melinda Wenner Moyer, Erica Westly, Janelle Weaver, Carrie Arnold, Charles Q. Choi, Janelle Weaver, Tori Rodriguez; 8 Page(s)

What Just Happened; The Urban Brain; How Partners Prevent Addiction; Sniffing Out a Good Time; Haunting Scenes; Putting Insomnia on Ice; I'm Not Sorry; A Conversation in the Brain; Something's Wrong with this Picture; Clever Crustaceans; Better Safe Than Sorry; Motions Unmask Moods; Suicide Cells; Gossip Shades What We See; Therapy in Air

Perspectives: Is Free Will an Illusion?; November/December 2011; by Shaun Nichols; 2 Page(s)

Consciousness Redux: Probing the Unconscious Mind; November/December 2011; by Christof Koch; 2 Page(s)

Cognitive psychology is mapping the capabilities we are unaware we possess

Illusions: Sculpting the Impossible: Solid Renditions of Visual Illusions; November/December 2011; by Stephen L. Macknik, Susana Martinez-Conde; 3 Page(s)

Artists find mind-bending ways to bring impossible figures into three-dimensional reality

Calendar; November/December 2011; by Victoria Stern; 1 Page(s)

Museum exhibits, conferences and events relating to the brain

Unlocking the Lucid Dream; November/December 2011; by Ursula Voss ; 3 Page(s)

Becoming aware of your sleeping self could relieve anxiety or tap the creative unconscious

Answers in Your Dreams; November/December 2011; by Deirdre Barrett; 8 Page(s)

When you fall asleep, you enter an alternative state of consciousness—a time when true inspiration can strike

The Death of Preschool; November/December 2011; by Paul Tullis; 6 Page(s)

The trend in early education is to move from a play-based curriculum to a more school-like environment of directed learning. But is earlier better? And better at what?

Head Shots; November/December 2011; by Ann Chin and Sandra Upson; 6 Page(s)

Artistry abounds in these 10 maps of the human mind

Shifting Focus; November/December 2011; by Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik; 8 Page(s)

Tiny subconscious eye movements called microsaccades stave off blindness in all of us—and can even betray our hidden desires

Culture of Shock; November/December 2011; by Stephen Reicher and S. Alexander Haslam; 6 Page(s)

Fifty years after Stanley Milgram conducted his series of stunning experiments, psychologists are revisiting his findings on the nature of obedience

In the Minds of Others; November/December 2011; by Keith Oatley; 6 Page(s)

Reading fiction can strengthen your social ties and even change your personality

Facts & Fictions in Mental Health: Grief without Tears; November/December 2011; by Scott O. Lilienfeld; Hal Arkowitz; 2 Page(s)

People are not always devastated by a death and should be allowed to recover in their own way

We're Only Human: On the Trail of the Orchid Child; November/December 2011; by Wray Herbert; 2 Page(s)

One genetic variant leads to the best and worst outcomes in kids

Reviews and Recommendations; November/December 2011; by Frank Bures, Samantha Murphy, Jordan Lite, Victoria Stern, Brian Mossop; 2 Page(s)

Books and more relating to the mind and brain

Ask the Brains; November/December 2011; by Heidi Johansen-Berg, Jeannine Callea Stamatakis; 1 Page(s)

How does our brain learn new information? Are we biologically inclined to couple for life?

Head Games; November/December 2011; by The Editors; 1 Page(s)

Match wits with the Mensa puzzlers

MIND in Pictures; November/December 2011; by Dwayne Godwin, Jorge Cham; 1 Page(s)

Franklin to Frankenstein