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

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 ...

When René Descartes watched a mechanical figure move with lifelike precision in the 17th century, the scene unsettled him.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Human consciousness, the lens through which we experience life, is a hard thing to pin down in the brain — especially in people who have experienced traumatic brain injury and can’t tell us that their ...

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 ...

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 ...

Science may be one step closer to understanding where consciousness resides in the brain. A new study shows the importance of certain types of neural connections in identifying consciousness. The ...

Can we ever truly understand the experiences of animals? Many philosophers and scientists harbor skepticism, often asserting that we can never truly comprehend what goes on in an animal’s mind. For ...