This article discusses the “cognitive turn” in history and the usefulness of the cognitive sciences for a history of emotions and representation.
Bodily adaptations have been integrated into human culture in a co-evolutionary process, such as the social and regulating function of the moral emotion shame. The ability to feel shame and physiological markers of it, such as blushing, are hardwired, but they are used in many different and sometimes even contradicting ways in specific cultures.
This article looks at the history of the plant Erythroxylum coca—a natural source of cocaine—which offers one way to trace the interaction between a physiological agent in history and the growth of empires.
This article is the abstract of a scientific study on healing vs. non-healing environments. The experiment used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to record brain activity while participants visualized different environments.
This article looks at neuropathology, which may shed light on the actions of individuals in power. Do leaders show a tendency to have certain neurological traits?
This article is a critique of Daniel Lord Smail’s book On Deep History and the Brain.
The term neurohistory points to the fundamental realities that lie at the basis of both history and neuroscience: anthropology and the philosophy of time and world history.
This article is the syllabus for a course that surveys the history of Western thought from the standpoint of the brain.
This article describes the ecovillage Sieben Linden from the perspective of one of its residents.
Ecovillage resident and author Diana Leafe Christian talks about life in an ecovillage.
