13 February 2024
Scientists have found that we generally remember where an object was located, but possibly not its other details, a discovery that could change how we view eyewitness testimonies
12 February 2024
Infants aged just 4 months old who live in a home where two languages are spoken have distinct patterns of brain activation compared with infants living in monolingual environments
19 July 2023
A new way to understand where consciousness comes from and novel insights into subjective thought show that the hard problem of consciousness is worth persevering with
19 July 2023
We finally have a grasp on the many different ways of thinking and how your inner mindscape affects your experience of reality
18 July 2023
A proposed way to measure consciousness called integrated information theory has been tested using data from human brain scans, and seems to work
3 July 2023
Researchers have identified a network of structures in the brain that may help us to regulate negative emotions when we see something upsetting
28 June 2023
Senior religious figures from a diverse range of faiths took psilocybin as part of a study on how people's worldviews influence their psychedelic experiences. Many said they felt the divine
26 June 2023
Twenty-five years ago, a neuroscientist and a philosopher bet a case of fine wine on whether scientists would have cracked the neural basis of consciousness by 2023. Now, one of them conceded the prize
17 June 2023
Neural recordings from chickadees have found unique patterns of activity that occur when they hide food and then retrieve it later, and they may represent how memories are indexed in the brain
13 June 2023
People who were played fake translations in their sleep could recall which category of words they belonged to when they woke up
