Scientists from Boston University, Queensland University of Technology, and the University of Toronto are advancing a shared idea about how the mind works. They argue that the same brain systems used ...

Recently, there has been convergence of thought by researchers in the fields of memory, perception, and neurology that the ...

Researchers outline a roadmap for applying transcranial focused ultrasound, a noninvasive technique for stimulating the brain ...

The brain can be watched in action, but what actually causes conscious experience remains hard to test. Modern brain scans can track patterns of activity in real time, yet a basic question remains ...

Koch, who studied vision, thought that by measuring people's brain responses as they looked at special optical illusions, ...

Tantalizing clues in 4-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu samples could reveal particular molecular formations that some ...

The researchers found 68 articles that analyzed theoretical aspects of consciousness and that were published between 2007 and ...

Babies blink, cry, and yawn—and a few weeks into their lives, they might smile. But do these movements mean that newborns have conscious experiences of perceiving the world around them? Or are these ...

Can artificial intelligence become conscious? This question, once confined to science fiction, now occupies a central place in ethical and scientific discussions. A philosopher from the University of ...

Advances in artificial intelligence are making it increasingly difficult to distinguish between uniquely human behaviors and those that can be replicated by machines. Should artificial general ...

Babies blink, cry, and yawn—and a few weeks into their lives, they might smile. But do these movements mean that newborns have conscious experiences of perceiving the world around them? Or are these ...