Our understanding of consciousness could be fundamentally wrong This article is part of a special package on “Impossible ...

The brain is constantly managing a myriad of bodily functions, and most of them happen without our being aware of it. So why do some operations rise to the level of awareness? That’s the question at ...

What gives rise to human consciousness? Are some parts of the brain more important than others? Scientists began tackling these questions in more depth about 35 years ago. Researchers have made ...

You know that feeling when you walk into a room and immediately forget why you came in? Maybe you were there to fetch your keys. On your way to the room, you were thinking about grabbing your keys.

In the 1990s, Nobel Laureate Francis Crick declared that “consciousness is not a philosophical problem anymore but a neuro-scientific one, and we are going to crack it in the next two decades.” ...

A review of over 100 years of neuroscience research asks if some brain regions are more important than others for consciousness. What gives rise to human consciousness? Are some parts of the brain ...