Nicholas Weiler

We talk with neurolinguist Cory Shain about the quintessential human superpower – language – and a new Big Ideas in Neuroscience project to understand it

We talk with neuroscientist Kalanit Grill-Spector about how the things we see in childhood – words, faces, even cartoon creatures – reorganize our brains

We talk with neuroscientist Boris Heifets about the new federal push to accelerate research on psychedelic drugs for mental health treatment

We talk with psychiatrist Neir Eshel about why rewards are sweeter when we've had to work for them and what this teaches us about our brains' reward systems