An unprecedented brain study has delivered fresh clues about consciousness—suggesting it's more about perception than planning. Two leading theories went head-to-head, but neither emerged victorious.
Language is one of the most distinctive features of the human species. There are good reasons to believe it is a uniquely human capacity that no other organism has (Berwick and Chomsky, 2016). Unlike ...
The brains of mammals continuously combine signals originating from different regions to produce various sensations, emotions, thoughts and behaviors. This process, known as information integration, ...
An experiment seven years in the making has uncovered new insights into the nature of consciousness and challenges two prominent, competing scientific theories: Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and ...
Perhaps language is even a necessary condition for consciousness. This would, however, restrict consciousness to humans if it turns out that language is indeed a uniquely human capacity; hence, the ...
A group photo from the original meeting in March 2018 at the Allen Institute in Seattle, WA, that kicked off the set of adversarial collaborations. IIT suggests that consciousness emerges when ...
An unprecedented experiment seven years in the making has shaken the field of neuroscience. Researchers set out to answer one of science’s most puzzling questions: Where does consciousness come from?
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