This is Part 4 of a five-part series on cognition and consciousness. Part 1 explored what we mean by "cognition." In Parts 2 and 3, we examined neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux’s strict definition, which ...

The neuron, the specialized cell type that makes up much of our brain, is at the center of today’s neuroscience. Neuroscientists explain perception, memory, cognition and even consciousness itself as ...

Right now, the debate about consciousness often feels frozen between two entrenched positions. On one side sits computational functionalism, which treats cognition as something you can fully explain ...

A pair of recent studies examined why sophisticated levels of consciousness evolved in some animals, but not in others. In the first study, philosophers outlined the ALARM theory that shows how three ...

The familiar fight between “mind as software” and “mind as biology” may be a false choice. This work proposes biological computationalism: the idea that brains compute, but not in the abstract, symbol ...

Summary: Patients surviving severe traumatic brain injuries often enter states designated as Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness (PDoC) or Locked-In Syndrome (LIS). For decades, standard bedside ...

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Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? For decades, neuroscience has charted the map of consciousness. It identified neurons ...

Strong versions of the embodiment argument (that consciousness requires complete sensorimotor integration) founder on cases ...

Where in the brain does consciousness originate? Theories abound, but neuroscientists still haven’t coalesced around one explanation, largely because it’s such a hard question to probe with the ...