In a study published in Science today, Mingsha Zhang, a neuroscientist at Beijing Normal University, focused on the thalamus.

This, in a nutshell, is the heart of the stoned ape theory, or the idea that our impressive cognitive capabilities, like ...

Humans possess unique self-awareness, experiencing emotions and consciousness that science struggles to fully understand, ...

Thus, with plants we have an example of how we can think about consciousness without mind. Animals are minded and obviously have creature consciousness. Mind1a is the domain of neuro-information ...

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 ...

Consciousness is central to human experience, shaping everything we perceive and understand. Yet, its nature remains one of ...

There are at least some markers of joy that appear to be quite widespread across animals. One is vocalizations that resemble ...

One of the questions Tononi confronts is why lesions of certain brain areas affect consciousness while lesions in other areas have no apparent effect. For example, lesions to the thalamocortical ...