“I’m not bad. I’m just drawn that way.” — Jessica Rabbit, “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” How much of human behaviour is subconscious, seemingly illogical or counter intuitive? The answer is, a lot! My daughter, who is studying cognitive neuroscience at university, has been regaling me lately with facts about how the human brain actually works. Neuroscience is the field concerned with the study of the biological processes and aspects that underlie cognition, with a specific focus on the neural connections in the brain that are involved in mental processes. Think of the science of psychology as describing how a spark...