https://nishanthks.pages.dev/tags/neuroscience/Recent content in Neuroscience on Dr. Nishanth K SHugoen-USTue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://nishanthks.pages.dev/blog/the-self-as-story/Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://nishanthks.pages.dev/blog/the-self-as-story/We tell ourselves we are the authors of our lives. But the neuroscience of memory suggests the narrator is unreliable — and perhaps always was.https://nishanthks.pages.dev/blog/free-will-in-an-age-of-neuroscience/Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://nishanthks.pages.dev/blog/free-will-in-an-age-of-neuroscience/Benjamin Libet’s experiments suggested that unconscious brain activity precedes conscious decisions. Decades later, the implications remain fiercely debated.https://nishanthks.pages.dev/blog/the-predictive-brain/Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://nishanthks.pages.dev/blog/the-predictive-brain/The brain does not passively receive sensory data. It generates predictions about what is out there and checks them against incoming signals. The implications for our understanding of consciousness are profound.