Researchers outline a roadmap for applying transcranial focused ultrasound, a noninvasive technique for stimulating the brain ...

Because of their high levels of curiosity and instinct, there are certain things conscious thinkers and observers usually say ...

Neuroscientists and philosophers have debated this thought experiment for decades as they have tried to understand how the ...

What are you thinking about? This is a question often asked by our friends and family. Why must they ask? Well, simply because our conscious thoughts are often un-inferable to those around one. A ...

Koch, who studied vision, thought that by measuring people's brain responses as they looked at special optical illusions, ...

Consciousness has long been treated as philosophy’s most stubborn mystery, yet a growing body of neuroscience is now tying our inner life to specific, testable brain mechanisms. A leading MIT ...

Metaphors invite ways of thinking. If philosophical disagreements are battles, only one side can win. If memory is a storehouse, recollection requires search and retrieval (but maybe not if memory is ...

The human brain is constantly picking up patterns in everyday experiences — and can do so without conscious thought, finds a study 1 of neuronal activity in people who had electrodes implanted in ...

Consciousness is famously a "hard problem" of science: We don't precisely know how the physical matter in our brains translates into thoughts, sensations, and feelings. But an emerging research tool ...