Which creatures truly count as cognitive? And which as conscious? From simple organisms to humans, scientists debate the ...

Attention may not be sufficient for consciousness, and thus one can justify the view that there are unconscious forms of perceptual attention. A lot of nuance is added to this spectrum if one ...

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 ...

Consciousness is all of the things we experience each day that make up our awareness and experience of our lives. It is the individual awareness of your unique thoughts, memories, feelings, sensations ...

The universe has no brain. It has no gray matter, no nervous system, no neurons firing electrical impulses—and yet, that physical structure may not be where intelligence and consciousness actually ...