Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The same brain systems used to remember the past also shape conscious experience of the present and expectations of the future.

A growing body of research is challenging the long-held assumption that memory and awareness belong exclusively to the brain. Scientists working across immunology, biophysics, and neuroscience have ...

That sinking feeling before your phone rings with bad news. The inexplicable urge to take a different route home that later saves you from a traffic nightmare. Most people dismiss these moments as ...

Our lives revolve around patterns. From the time we wake up to the moment we stop at a red light to when we sit down for dinner, the cadence of our day-to-day actions guides how we interact with the ...

Your ability to recall the what, when, where, and how of a past experience comes from episodic memory, a type of long-term, explicit memory. Your memory allows you to retain information so you can use ...

Despite their elegant descriptions of animal behavior, I am not sanguine about the effort of some scholars to extend consciousness to lower animals like insects. One example of such efforts is found ...

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A Sussex neuroscientist features in a documentary exploring dementia and the nature of consciousness.

To understand the nature of consciousness, it is necessary to forego the notion that we are either conscious or unconscious. Some consciousness "stuff" does not suddenly get added to our other brain ...

About 300,000 years ago, an early human was foraging for food in an expanse of grassland. She spied a cluster of mushrooms ...

Scientists from Boston University, Queensland University of Technology, and the University of Toronto are advancing a shared idea about how the mind works. They argue that the same brain systems used ...

It is always entertaining to look into the crystal ball and predict the future—entertaining but very speculative. The study of the brain in all its aspects, from genes to neurons to consciousness, is ...