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

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 ...

A recent study suggests that some form of conscious experience may be present by the time a baby is born—and perhaps even in ...

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

But science is rarely so cut-and-dry – so ... None of these viewpoints are necessarily without merit – but as the bar for consciousness gets pushed higher, the consequences become ever ...

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

Self-scratching among non-human primates is known to indicate social tension and anxiety. The two researchers from Kyoto ...

Neuroscientist Anil Seth, director of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science at the University of Sussex, suggests that hallucinations are not so different from what we commonly regard as ...

For most modern scholars, Cartesian dualism is considered taboo. However, consciousness still remains unsolved by science until now. The Hard Problem of Consciousness Before the 1990s, many people ...