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, ...

But many scientists still believe that the scientific keys to the kingdom of consciousness are within reach. Lately, some are ...

Consciousness researchers studying “islands of awareness” have found that disconnected brains likely sink into a strange form ...

This interaction could help explain both why quantum processes can occur within environments like the brain and why we lose ...

Yes: Consciousness is totally dependent on the brain and comes out from it. Dynamics of the brain create awareness. The brain is the conscious mind. No: Mind and body are distinctly different; ...

It happens as often as 16% of our conscious lives: the mind simply goes blank. There is nothing inside, no verbal thinking, no mental images, nothing but the lack itself of mental processes.

We don't precisely know how the physical matter in our brains translates into thoughts, sensations, and feelings. But an ...

Take a moment and consider how you define mind relative to consciousness. In reflecting on questions such as: Can something have a mind, but not be conscious? Can something be conscious, but not have ...

Understanding how the brain creates conscious experience remains one of science’s most difficult challenges. Brain scans and ...

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 ...