Consciousness is primarily experienced internally, but the phenomenon of out-of-body experiences (OBEs) challenges this assumption. Although scientists have developed biological-based explanations for ...

The origins of consciousness have been debated by philosophers for centuries. Each conscious person has a sense of "being me," which invariably gives rise to the question of where that sense ...

What gives rise to human consciousness? Are some parts of the brain more important than others? Scientists began tackling these questions in more depth about 35 years ago. Researchers have made ...

In this blog series, for the last 9 years, we have explored the implications of the differences between consciousness and attention. One difference is about the divergent paths taken by species ...

Consciousness is the ultimate question of existence. Nothing is more essential than our experience. Yet we have no consensus, and perhaps no clue, about what it actually is. The trouble, in part, is ...

The ‘doorway effect’ suggests that when information is removed from working memory, it immediately seems to leave consciousness.

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This is part 2 of a 5-part series. Part 1 provided an overview of the leading theories of consciousness. In this post, we will focus on higher-order theories (HOTs) of consciousness, one of several ...