An EU team of neuroscientists asked their peers: “Can’t we all just get along?” They analyzed how five major theories of ...

Consciousness, IIT argues, arises from information processing ... techniques to observe the brains of 256 participants—a very large sample size for a neuroscience study—while those participants ...

A new study reveals that sleep-like slow-wave brain activity can persist for years in surgically disconnected brain hemispheres of awake epilepsy patients.

What if bacteria are conscious? New research suggests all life experiences awareness through unique lenses—and humans can ...

Research has revealed fascinating insights into how consciousness might emerge from quantum processes within the brain. Scientists have identified that microtubules, microscopic hollow tubes found ...

We can account for the evolution of consciousness only if we crack the philosophy, as well as the physics, of the brain. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

New research suggests that consciousness originates in the subcortex, and is polished by the cortex and cerebellum.

One such name is Christof Koch, Chief Scientific Officer at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, who now champions the idea along with Tononi. Koch may be best-known for bringing consciousness ...

Where in the brain does consciousness originate? Theories abound, but neuroscientists still haven’t coalesced around one explanation, largely because it’s such a hard question to probe with the ...