A new brain decoding method called mind captioning can generate accurate text descriptions of what a person is seeing or recalling—without relying on the brain's language system.

“Use your imagination.” You’ve probably heard this phrase since before you can remember. It was your imagination you were using to create your first finger painting; your imagination that let you ...

The most popular TED talk of all time is a talk by Ken Robinson on whether schools kill creativity. Robinson does not provide any evidence they do; he simply laments the decline of arts education. But ...

Henry Molaison, known for years as “H.M.,” was famously unable to form new memories. If someone he had met left the room only to return several minutes later, he would greet that person again as if ...

Creativity and imagination are not the same thing. Everything I've learned about imagination over the last very many posts is based on this simple observation. Though they frequently call on each ...