January/February 2012
Scientific American Mind

Cover; January/February 2012; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

From the Editor; January/February 2012; by Sandra Upson; 1 Page(s)

Time to Forget

Table of Contents; January/February 2012; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

Letters; January/February 2012; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

Readers Respond to "Fight the Frazzled Mind"--and More

Head Lines; January/February 2012; by Winnie Yu; Erica Westly; Anne Cassleman; Andrea Anderson; Carrie Arnold; Janelle Weaver; Andrea Anderson, Carrie Arnold, Lauren F. Friedman, Maria Konnikova, Lena Gregor, Morgen Peck, Joel Shurkin, Tori Rodriguez, Stephani Sutherland; 9 Page(s)

Ripples of Rudeness; When Helper Cells Attack; The Google Effect; Mind the Animals; The Stuttering Brain; Get Out the Vote; A Downward Spiral; That's Me over There; The Taste of Immune Suppression; Infant Kandinskys; Physically Out of Tune; Living in Two Dimensions; An Early Warning Sign; You Smell Angry; When Viruses Invade the Brain

Illusions: What's in a Face?; January/February 2012; by Stephen L. Macknik, Susana Martinez-Conde; 3 Page(s)

The human brain is good at identifying faces, but illusions can fool our "face sense"

Perspectives: The Secret Inner Life of Bees; January/February 2012; by Jason Castro; 2 Page(s)

Provocative experiments suggest that insects have something resembling emotions

Consciousness Redux: Movies in the Cortical Theater; January/February 2012; by Christof Koch; 2 Page(s)

Functional MRI can peer inside your brain and watch you watching a YouTube clip

Let It Go; January/February 2012; by The Editors; 2 Page(s)

A Feeling for the Past; January/February 2012; by Ingfei Chen; 8 Page(s)

Emotion engraves the brain with vivid recollections but cleverly distorts your brain's record of what really took place

Trying to Forget; January/February 2012; by Ingrid Wickelgren; 8 Page(s)

The ability to let go of thoughts and remembrances supports a sound state of mind, a sharp intellectand even superior memory

Totaling Recall; January/February 2012; by Adam Piore; 4 Page(s)

Scientists can put memories in a precarious state—and manipulate, or even erase, them

Mind-Warping Visions; January/February 2012; by Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde; 6 Page(s)

10 brain twisters compete to be the best illusion of 2011

Wired for Weird; January/February 2012; by Richard Wiseman; 6 Page(s)

Belief in the paranormal arises from the same brain mechanisms that shape most human thought

The Partnership Paradox; January/February 2012; by Joe Palca and Flora Lichtman; 6 Page(s)

Why the person you love most is also the one most likely to drive you mad

Facts & Fictions in Mental Health: Grief without Tears; January/February 2012; by Scott O. Lilienfeld; Hal Arkowitz; 2 Page(s)

True sufferers are often troubled—and yet time and treatment can often improve their livesqv

We're Only Human: Two Faces of Death; January/February 2012; by Wray Herbert; 2 Page(s)

Our dueling existential minds influence our beliefs and behaviors in different ways

Reveiws and recommendations; January/February 2012; by Robert Epstein; Sandra Upson, Brian Mossop,; 2 Page(s)

Books and more relating to the mind and brain

Ask the Brains; January/February 2012; by The Editors; 1 Page(s)

Is there a difference between the brain of an atheist and the brain of a religious person? How do our thoughts influence our physical sensations?

Head Games; January/February 2012; by The Editors; 1 Page(s)

Match wits with the Mensa puzzlers

MIND in Pictures; January/February 2012; by Dwayne Godwin; Jorge Cham; 1 Page(s)

Musice to your brain