Psychiatrists, psychologists, and therapists are paid by the hour to turn their clients’ ramblings into actionable advice or diagnoses. They are licensed to do so only after years of training, because ...

El neurocientífico argentino Mariano Sigman destacó en una entrevista con EFE el poder de la palabra como una herramienta que en ocasiones ha salvado a la humanidad, pero también puede cambiar la vida ...

Hidden, behind-the-scenes mechanics of thought are revealed in this scintillating ramble through brain science. Cognitive neuroscientist Sigman expands his celebrated TED talk to show the unexpected ...

In a new study, Mariano Sigman and Stanislas Dehaene propose a model of cognitive processing for a set of simple tasks in which a bottleneck occurs between initial sensory processing and motor ...

Discover the transformative power of words and conversations in The Power of Words, the profound and inspiring international bestseller by renowned neuroscientist Mariano Sigman. ''A comprehensive ...

Marian Sigman, a neuroscientist and author of "The Secret Life of the Mind: How Your Brain Thinks, Feels, and Decides," explains how babies that grow up bilingual will have brain functions that might ...

We all know that when we make decisions in groups, they don't always go right -- and sometimes they go very wrong. How can groups make good decisions? With his colleague Dan Ariely, neuroscientist ...

Editor's note: The original online version of this story was posted on September 20, 2009. In patients who have survived severe brain damage, judging the level of actual awareness has proved a ...

The map of political corruption is never stagnant, with countries becoming more and less corrupt all the time. Mariano Sigman, author of "The Secret Life of the Mind," explains how this instability of ...

Humans have been on Earth for around 200,000 years but have only used symbols as a form of communication for a fraction of that time. Because of this, Mariano Sigman, author of "The Secret Life of The ...