In Newen and Montemayor’s evolutionary framework, basic arousal developed first. It’s like nature’s security alarm, warning ...

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

Neuroscientists and philosophers have debated this thought experiment for decades as they have tried to understand how the ...

The coolest and most basic insight that has coalesced in my understanding of human consciousness over the past 18 months is that a fundamental distinction can be drawn between two different streams of ...

"Fast asleep? It is no matter; Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber: Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies, Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep'st so sound." —William ...

Consciousness is all of the things we experience each day that make up our awareness and experience of our lives. It is the individual awareness of your unique thoughts, memories, feelings, sensations ...

Researchers identify a key area in the cortex that appears to be the gate of conscious awareness. During our waking hours, the brain is receiving a near-constant influx of sensory signals of various ...

A measure of brain complexity, derived from magnetic stimulation and EEG, can effectively evaluate conscious processing in ...