What brain research can and cannot explain about behaviour and experience.
2 long-form neuroscience essays, written at the density of real CAT passages, each with CAT, XAT and GMAT-style questions and explanations. For real exam passages, practise the solved CAT RC PYQs; for a daily routine, see CAT RC practice.
Phineas Gage is the best known brain injury patient in history, and most of what is said about him is shakier than the textbooks admit. The more his case is studied, the less certain it becomes where a person actually lives.
In 2014 a Berlin brain scan study linked heavy pornography use to a smaller reward region, and the headlines said the brain was shrinking. The study could not say that, and the argument it started is about meaning more than anatomy.
