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A groundbreaking study challenges Descartes’ “I think, therefore I am,” suggesting consciousness begins with bodily feelings, reshaping how we define awareness.

A grand experiment pitted two rival theories of consciousness against each other. Critics have condemned one of the two theories as pseudoscience, and have questioned whether the new study can ...

Chinese and French scientists have developed an extremely detailed blueprint of the crab-eating macaque’s claustrum, an elusive brain region believed to play a role in consciousness.

What is consciousness? Much of the time, consciousness is something of a “you know it when you see it” phenomenon. We’re conscious right now; the phone we’re reading this on is not.

Humans are a highly social species. Esteban De Armas/Shuttestock But we have argued that consciousness may have evolved to facilitate key social adaptive functions. Rather than helping individuals ...

Despite being a fundamental part of human existence, we know very little about consciousness and how it happens. Now, scientists have just brought us one step closer to finding out with a new 'map of ...

The complementary structural and functional connectivity maps provide a neuroanatomic basis for integrating arousal and awareness in human consciousness.

A new map of a brain network that sustains wakefulness in humans could help improve our understanding of consciousness.