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Starting in the 1970s, researchers identified a beautiful system of specialised cells in the hippocampus (the brain’s memory ...

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GNWT, championed by French cognitive neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene, argues that consciousness emerges when information ...

Two other brain regions support adopting another person’s perspective and seeing their point of view: the temporal parietal junction (TPJ) and superior temporal sulcus (STS). These areas add emotional ...

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