Consciousness has long been treated as philosophy’s most stubborn mystery, yet a growing body of neuroscience is now tying ...

On neuroscience’s big stage Nov. 15, MIT Professor Earl K. Miller will propose that thought and consciousness emerge from the ...

Humans know they exist, but how does "knowing" work? Despite all that's been learned about brain function and the bodily ...

Consciousness is primarily experienced internally, but the phenomenon of out-of-body experiences (OBEs) challenges this assumption. Although scientists have developed biological-based explanations for ...

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 ...

We can account for the evolution of consciousness only if we crack the philosophy, as well as the physics, of the brain. Your consciousness is what it's like to be you. It's your experiences of color ...

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 ...

A small percentage of people with epilepsy experience a state of “oneness” with the world just before their seizures. The ...

Neuroscientists studying the shifts between sleep and awareness are finding many liminal states, which could help explain the ...

Consciousness is a brain-generated neurologic illusion. The brain creates representations of reality, self, other people, objects, set designs, and landscape, which correspond quite accurately to ...

Scientists have spent decades trying to understand whether the layered sheet of tissue that covers your brain follows one ...