Two leading theories of consciousness went head-to-head—and the results may change how neuroscientists study one of the ...

What makes humans conscious? Scientists disagree, strongly, as one group of peacemakers discovered the hard way.

Consciousness is at the center of human existence, the ability to see, hear, dream, imagine, feel pain or pleasure, dread, ...

Out-of-body experiences (OBEs) are often dismissed as hallucinations or brain malfunctions, but a new study gives voice to those who have lived them.

Findings, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, "open the door to a deeper understanding of lucid dreaming as an intricate state of consciousness by pointing to the possibility that conscious ...

Consciousness is not the same as the behavior associated with this feeling, for example pushing a button ... in a coma or patients in a vegetative state or with unresponsive wakefulness syndrome ...

Part of the Australian national character and mythology is the larrikin tradition, and the allied notion that Australians ...

In the stillness of sleep, some people wake up — without ever opening their eyes. They become aware, mid-dream, that they’re dreaming. They explore their fantasies with the same sense of self as they ...

Consciousness is not the same as the behavior associated with this feeling, for example pushing a button ... in a coma or patients in a vegetative state or with unresponsive wakefulness syndrome ...