In 1973 Mary Rowe of MIT coined the notion of micro-inequities: apparently small, hard-to-prove events that occur wherever people are perceived to be different. Rowe pointed out that micro-inequities, though they appear to be insignificant, can have seriously harmful effects when allowed to occur repeatedly. The problem of micro-inequities persists 40 years later. read...

Some assume that colors appear the same to all of us. But research indicates that this isn’t the case. It turns out that white male privilege exists even in objective theories of perceptual color experience. read more

Patients suffering from psychological disorders are unable to properly coordinate events in time. They over- or underestimate time intervals ranging from several seconds to minutes. But what exactly gets messed up in the brain’s time keeping mechanisms in psychological disorders? read more

The scientific and philosophical literature considers compulsive and addictive disorders to be distinct. But this belief is based on an oversimplified interpretation of patient reports. It turns out that our present understanding of compulsive disorders may be mistaken. read more

A nurse, wife and Mother with synesthesia read more

Like individuals with autism, people who are born without a corpus callosum, the main connection between the right and the left hemispheres of the brain, sometimes have remarkable memory abilities. New research offers insight into the extraordinary connections manifested by the brains of people born with this condition. read...