According to LeDoux, the brain economizes by relying on habits and automatic responses, reserving the more energetically ...

Recent research reveals that a blank mind may be closer to your brain’s default setting, while thinking and imagining are add ...

Death is the inescapable conclusion of life. But what happens after death is still a highly debated topic. Throw into the mix a heady combination of religious belief and scientific theories, and you ...

During a trip, language could become temporarily irrelevant, researchers say. That speechlessness may be linked to sensing ...

WASHINGTON, May 1 (Reuters) - Consciousness is at the center of human existence, the ability to see, hear, dream, imagine, feel pain or pleasure, dread, love and more. But where precisely does this ...

A new study published in Nature Communications Medicine led by neurosurgery researchers Sima Mofakham, PhD, and Chuck Mikell, MD, of the Renaissance School of Medicine (RSOM) at Stony Brook University ...

After analyzing many previous studies on lucid dreaming, researchers have defined it as a state that differs significantly from both REM sleep and wakefulness. The awareness of dreaming during a lucid ...

After analyzing many previous studies on lucid dreaming, researchers have defined it as a state that differs significantly from both REM sleep and wakefulness. The awareness of dreaming during a lucid ...

A machine-learning algorithm spotted signs of “covert consciousness” in coma patients—in some cases, days before doctors ...

This is Part 2 of a five-part blog series exploring the nature of cognition and its relationship with consciousness. In Part 1, we considered the surprisingly elusive definition of cognition as well ...

Find out here why the world’s most successful business leaders are embracing consciousness research to drive sustainable transformation ...