Two Theories Face Off to Explain the Origins of Consciousness Scientific American Two Theories of Consciousness Faced Off.

When you're feeling angry, your thinking brain is less functional, and you often behave poorly. The collective future ...

Now, Cortical Labs has successfully developed a brain-on-a-chip computer primarily designed to aid scientists and researchers ...

The brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings or an orchestral symphony ...

Although scientists have developed biological-based explanations for OBEs (a mismatch of sensory information or the ...

Human brains are great at sorting through a barrage of sensory information—like discerning the smell of tomato sauce upon ...

We live in an era of constant surveillance. Psychology research shows how this might change how we perceive the world — even unconsciously ...

What would it take to create a cyborg brain like the one in the new TV show Murderbot? The answer reveals what makes our own ...

Duke University Medical Center-led research has identified a human-specific DNA enhancer that regulates neural progenitor ...

Consciousness is at the center of human existence, the ability to see, hear, dream, imagine, feel pain or pleasure, dread, ...

That 'aha' moment when you come back to a puzzle and immediately figure it out? Something fascinating is going on in your brain. A new study using functional magnetic resonance imaging shows that ...

Language models were better at predicting human behavior, while video models were better at predicting neural activity in the brain. The results provide a sharp contrast to AI's success in reading ...