Questions about the nature of consciousness remain among the most perplexing areas of modern scientific research, with ...

The origins of consciousness date back about 540 million years ago, when animal bodies became more complex. Feelings like ...

A new study led by Dr. Jiang Yi from the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed the first ...

A RECENT GROUNDBREAKING EXPERIMENT in which anesthesia was administered to rats has convinced scientists that tiny structures in the rodents’ brains are responsible for the experience of consciousness ...

In the waking state, a person's consciousness is continuously filled with sensations, memories, and reflections. However, ...

Our species has long agonized over the concept of human consciousness. What exactly causes it, and why did we evolve to experience consciousness? Now, a new study has uncovered a clue in the hunt for ...

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 ...

Correction: The original version of this article incorrectly stated the study was published in Brain Simulation. In fact, it was published in Brain Stimulation. This post was updated Feb. 16 at 6:06 p ...

A new study addresses the question of whether psychedelics might change the attribution of consciousness to a range of living and nonliving things. Psychedelic drugs, like psilocybin, an ingredient ...

What it means to be conscious is more than just a philosophical question. Researchers continue to investigate how conscious experience arises from the electrochemical activity of the human brain. The ...

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