Your brain never stops working. But it does cease talking to itself when you lose consciousness, a new study shows. Scientists have long wondered what the brain does and doesn't do during deep sleep.

MADISON - In the human brain, cells talk to one another through the routine exchange of electrical signals. But when people fall into a deep sleep, the higher regions of the brain - regions that ...

Integrated Information Theory (IIT) is a widely discussed—and, by some, strongly promoted —“mathematical theory of consciousness” developed over the past 10-20 years or so, mainly by neuroscientist ...

Human beings spend nearly a third of their lives asleep, and nearly 80 percent of our sleeping hours are occupied by "slow wave activity," when waves of electrical activity massage the brain once per ...

Striking electron microscope pictures from inside the brains of mice suggest what happens in our own brain every day: Our synapses - the junctions between nerve cells - grow strong and large during ...

What if everything in our world has a soul and mind? What if every desk, chair, and potted plant has a conscious stream of thoughts? That's the basic idea behind Panpsychism, a theory first put ...

The only thing you know for sure is that you are conscious. All else is inference, however reasonable. There is something in your head that generates experiences: the words you are reading on this ...