Consciousness has long resisted neat explanations, but a growing body of research suggests the problem may lie in how we ...

When your mind goes blank, visual stimuli never reaches awareness. Study mapped the unique brain patterns behind these mental ...

Scientists say different parts of the brain are programmed to process information over different lengths of time. Some areas ...

But researchers were concerned about whether this procedure might have other, less desirable effects. What happens when the right and left sides of the cerebral cortex—responsible for an enormous ...

In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators report that only a small section of ...