"Theories are like toothbrushes," it's sometimes said. "Everybody has their own and nobody wants to use anybody else's." ...

A landmark study tested two leading theories of consciousness — Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and Global Neuronal ...

Scientists have been arguing for decades about how physical brain processes create our conscious experiences. Now, a new study puts two leading theories to the test against each other.

A Pulitzer Prize winner considers how elements of the Scopes trial on teaching evolution may color modern debates, including ...

Two leading theories of consciousness went head-to-head—and the results may change how neuroscientists study one of the ...

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

An experiment seven years in the making has uncovered new insights into the nature of consciousness and challenges two ...

What makes humans conscious? Scientists disagree, strongly, as one group of peacemakers discovered the hard way.

Postmodern approaches to psychoanalysis risk further isolating it from the rest of scientific psychiatry and psychology.