A team of researchers suggests that four key brain patterns and behaviors that indicate conscious awareness in adults could ...

New research suggests that the most ancient evolutionary parts of the brain could be contributing to consciousness.

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

A researcher went back over 100 years of brain science that lead him to a radical conclusion about consciousness.

Consciousness may be millions of years old, fueled by primal brain circuits rather than the human cortex alone.

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

A Yale-led study shows that the senses stimulate a region of the brain that controls consciousness—a finding that might inform treatment for disorders related to attention, arousal, and more. Humans ...

For decades, scientists have thought that human consciousness arises from the newest and most sophisticated parts of the brain. But a Cambridge scientist now claims that the fundamental basis of our ...

WASHINGTON (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 reside in ...

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A philosophy scholar has developed a practical “decision tree” to help scientists and ethicists evaluate which creatures may be conscious.