“Rather than actively shaping experience, the thalamus (if it is considered at all) has typically been relegated to a role in gating contents into consciousness,” the team explains in its paper.

The study involved 256 participants, a record number for this type of research. Scientists used three different methods to measure brain activity. This methodological approach provided robust and ...

Turns out, there might really be something to the reports of people seeing their lives flash before their eyes during ...

while other theorists proposed that consciousness is primarily a function of posterior brain areas or of subcortical areas. It seems that the jury is still out regarding the neural correlates of ...

Tucked underneath the brain's outer, wrinkly cortex is a deeply mysterious area, known as the claustrum ... 2005 that the claustrum is the seat of consciousness. In other words, the region ...

Consciousness is primarily experienced internally ... information or the disruptions of coordination across certain brain areas), other experts wonder if OBEs could be evidence of non-local ...

Scientists generally agree that consciousness relies on multiple brain regions working in tandem. But the areas and neural connections supporting our perception of the world have remained elusive. A ...

Tucked underneath the brain's outer, wrinkly cortex is a deeply mysterious area, known as the claustrum ... 2005 that the claustrum is the seat of consciousness; in other words, the region ...