New research warns scientists may be mistaking attention and calm for pure-awareness in the race to map consciousness itself.

Theorists of consciousness generally focus on sensation – what it's like to, say, experience the color red. Yet what we call the stream of consciousness offers a much richer and more complex blend of ...

David Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Stanford University and the author of eight books, most recently “Livewired.” ...

It's time to stop bickering, accept what science tells us, acknowledge the widespread occurrence of intentional behavioral flexibility, and pay attention to why it has evolved.

Book of the Day: For serious readers willing to grapple with its complexity, it offers not definitive answers but a radical reframing of one of humanity’s oldest questions, how did the mind come to ...

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 ...

For Anil Seth, another prominent neuroscientist, consciousness is a “controlled hallucination” because we never experience objective reality, whether externally in the world or within our minds. The ...

Self-analysis helps regulate future behavior for maximum effectiveness. Ever wonder why some people are more effective than others? Life just seems to be easier for them, right? The answer to this ...

Researchers reviewing near-death experiences and animal experiments claim consciousness may continue after the heart stops, ...