When it comes to consciousness, theories are like toothbrushes. Everybody has their own and nobody wants to use anybody ...

GNWT, championed by French cognitive neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene, argues that consciousness emerges when information ...

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Mental illness is no longer a taboo in Bangladesh — but are we healing, or simply importing a foreign language of suffering? In ‘Crazy Like Us,’ Ethan Watters shows what happens when psychiatry ...

Understanding how the brain encodes, processes, and transforms information to give rise to cognition is a central challenge in neuroscience. Recent advances ...

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Neuroscientists have identified brain areas related to self-relevance, social relevance, and a value system. When a decision ...

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