BLACKSBURG, Va., Oct. 5 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
Matt Howe has long been curious about how people see the world.
What interests him most is the idea that we can make up our minds about reality and use words to get other people to see reality the same way. Drawn to the work of essayists, Howe remained a creative writing major until his senior year of college, when that interest in conscious experience led him away from writing and toward the study of the brain.
"I came to neuroscience through a fascination with people with psychiatric disorders, who just seemed to have a fundamentally different perception of the world around them," Howe said. "I couldn't wrap my head around ...