We don't precisely know how the physical matter in our brains translates into thoughts, sensations, and feelings. But an ...

Learn how a new research roadmap could turn debates about consciousness into testable experiments.

Study Shows Your Eyes See, But Your Brain Doesn’t Process During Mental Absences In A Nutshell Consciousness may actually ...

COMMENTARY: Contemporary Western cultures insist consciousness resides exclusively in our brains, but an abundance of recent scientific research indicates otherwise. Medical teams at six research ...

“I think, therefore I am,” René Descartes, the 17th-century French philosopher and mathematician, famously wrote in 1637. His idea was straightforward: even if your senses, the world, or your body ...

A new study involved high-resolution scans that enabled the researchers to visualize brain connections at submillimeter spatial resolution. Together, these pathways form a 'default ascending arousal ...

In intensive care units, some patients who appear unconscious occupy a gray zone in their relationship to the world. To ...

A new study by the University of Waterloo researchers revealed that most people believe artificial intelligence (AI) tools are conscious. The study, which specifically examined beliefs on the ...

A new study led by Dr. Jiang Yi from the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed the first clear evidence that visual awareness acts as a "conductor" that refines the ...

New research found that brain scans can detect consciousness in some patients with brain injury who are unresponsive. In the study, 241 participants with severe brain injury who do not respond when ...