Consciousness

People with brain injuries may have varying levels of consciousness, and now researchers say they may have a way to measure a person's consciousness.

Developmental changes might make teens ultra sensitive to the gaze of other people.

A controversial theory suggests the brain acts like a quantum computer.

From the mind-body duality to Jennifer Aniston neurons, experts discuss what it means to be conscious.

Infants do not just react to the world reflexively.

The brain can retroactively recreate the conscious experience of seeing something as much as half a second after it's actually seen

In comatose patients, high-traffic brain regions go dark, while more peripheral regions become active.

People can process short sentences and solve equations before they're aware of the words and numbers in front of their eyes.

A woman's eye movements reveal a key to the nature of hypnosis.

Changing electrical activity deep within the brain indicate that groups of cells might be having communication issues.