Scientists discovered that the visual brain may secretly "feel" what it sees, turning sight into physical experience and ...

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Severance, which imagines a world where a person’s work and personal lives are surgically separated, returns Friday ...

Severance, which imagines a world where a person's work and personal lives are surgically separated, will soon return to Apple TV+ for a second season. While the concept of this gripping piece of ...

Severance, which imagines a world where a person’s work and personal lives are surgically separated, will soon return to Apple TV+ for a second season. While the concept of this gripping piece of ...

SINGAPORE – A little blue card, with his name and a few numbers that say who he is and where he lives. To Mr Ricqo Rafiezuwan, a 25-year-old whom The Straits Times featured in September in an article ...

What happens when you think and how you act don't align? We tell the story of a woman diagnosed with what's known as "alien hand syndrome." NPR's Invisibilia, the show about human behavior, has ...

What would happen if your brain was split in two? In this recent Invisibilia podcast and show, host Hanna Rosin meets a woman named Karen with "alien hand syndrome." After surgery to treat her ...

As I read through Michael Gazzaniga’s Human over the break, I was transported back to 1996 when I discovered—to my own satisfaction at least—what exactly the dividing line is between humans and other ...

You already know that we can run machines with our brainwaves. That’s been old news for almost a decade, ever since the first monkey fed himself using a robot arm and the power of positive thinking.

Free will is one of the fundamental aspects of human cognition. In the context of cognitive neuroscience, various experiments on time perception, sensorimotor coordination, and agency suggest the ...

In one of Stanley Kubrick’s weirdest movies (even by Kubrick standards), “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)“, one of the characters played by Peter Sellers is ...

A powerful approach to study self-consciousness has been to target brain mechanisms that process bodily signals (bodily self-consciousness). Bodily self-consciousness depends on three factors: ...